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An example use of doorman in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… of the the doorman in the in a …”
A doorman is a person who is employed to open and close the door of a building for the use of the occupants.
the word doorman occurs in english on average 0.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that doorman can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;
3) transport and travel;