janitor
noun
a person employed in an apartment house, office building, school, etc., to clean the public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs; caretaker.
janitors
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pluralof janitor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In one videotaped speech during a high school student government campaign, he complains of being told to pick up his trash, saying that should be the work of paid janitors.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
A museum guard stood outside the bathroom, and janitors cleaned the piece every 15 minutes or so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Marty comes of age in the Hill Valley of 1985, where vandals have shellacked the high school with so much graffiti that the janitors seem to have given up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
Some professions received carve-outs, including doctors, accountants, real estate agents and hairdressers; while others such as truckers, commercial janitors and physical therapists must abide by the tighter classification rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Some now worked downtown, messengers, janitors, things like that.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
