groundskeeper
Americannoun
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a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
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a person in charge of maintaining a football field, baseball diamond, etc.
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Etymology
Origin of groundskeeper
1930–35; + grounds ( def. ) “lawn and gardens” + keeper
Explanation
A groundskeeper is someone who's responsible for a property, often caring for gardens, lawns, and plants. The groundskeeper at the zoo works hard to keep the all the habitats looking perfect. Groundskeepers care for the grounds of a wide variety of public and private settings, including schools, state parks, baseball fields, botanical gardens, and resorts. The job of being a groundskeeper (sometimes called a "landscaper") can involve planting, weeding, mowing lawns, trimming hedges and trees, watering gardens, controlling pests, and more. If you love working outdoors and know how to use a lawn mower, you might enjoy being a groundskeeper.
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Like Epstein, whose father was a New York City parks groundskeeper, they had stratospheric trajectories from, say, a working-class background to running a multinational corporation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Bayer bought Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion, and two months later, a California jury ruled in favor of a groundskeeper who contracted non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025
Other confirmed actors in the series include Nick Frost as the affable groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid, Luke Thallon as professor Quirinus Quirrell and Paul Whitehouse as caretaker Argus Filch.
From BBC • May 27, 2025
It was wet weather, so Super Bowl groundskeeper George Toma used a Zamboni to vacuum the water off the turf.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025
We have our bungalow, and a coop for the chickens, the flower and vegetable gardens, and the cottages where Kazi and the groundskeeper, Mahit, live.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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