as in janitor
a person who tends a door
he generously tipped the porter for hailing a taxi
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Recent Examples of porter
Marchetti founded Yoox and spearheaded the merger with Net-a porter.
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Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 28 Nov. 2025
The rate typically includes meals, some beverages, and daily activities, but does not include gorilla trekking permits (about $700 per person) or porter fees.
—Natalie Preddie, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2025
Here, establishments like La Tour Montlhéry (known colloquially as Chez Denise since the 1960s) catered to market porters and workers seeking hearty, affordable fare at all hours, creating a parallel culinary universe to the more refined tables of the city’s grand boulevards.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Saveur, 19 Nov. 2025
These elaborate costumes, by the iconoclastic Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, dominated what followed: a pretty choreography of wings and light, with only the most basic movements; the women in particular were little more than porters for the striking but constrictive wings.
—Jennifer Homans, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025
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janitor
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Which is not to say that somebody can’t feel the same about being a janitor, or an insurance salesman, or a potato chip inspector.—
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The competitor, Drew Fleschut, triumphed over the hairstyle competition with a sweet tribute to actor David Spade's 2001 comedy Joe Dirt, in which the Saturday Night Live alum played a janitor with a mullet fixed to the top of his head as a baby.—
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“Porter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porter. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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