keyholder
noun[C]
uk/ˈkiːhəʊldər/usPROPERTY
apersonwho has beenchosento haveresponsibilityfor thekeysof aparticularbuilding, etc.:
You will need tonominateanofficialkeyholder for thepremises.
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I think of the well-known and often-quoted incident of an emergency exercise in an area where there was only onekeyholderfor the emergency centre.
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Where such notification is nevertheless received, it is force policy to require the alarm holder to notify the police of at least two keyholders.
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For instance, thekeyholdercould be held up by somebody outside and threatened or his family could be threatened.
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It also regulates three other sectors: private investigators, security consultants and keyholders.
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They go off at night, having been set by one's neighbours who have gone away and whose nominated keyholders live some distance away.
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The selection of two keyholders is again a vital element.
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There may be akeyholder, but there is no management, and we need to sort out that problem.
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As the secretary,keyholderor whoever it may be who has methods of getting in left the building, there could well be very little problem in robbing him or her.
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He sends two guards to find and fetch the missingkeyholder, who is unhappy about being disturbed and rushed to the bank.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Attacking everyone with a jinglebellkeyholder.
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