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Paid to protect animals from everyone except the man who pays him.
means A person employed on an estate to breed, protect, and manage wild game animals and birds so they'll be plentiful when it's time for hunters to shoot them.
from A straightforward compound of 'game' (wild animals hunted for sport or food, from Old English 'gamen' meaning game or amusement) and 'keeper' (one who guards or tends, from Old English 'cepan,' to seize or hold). The job itself grew up alongside English and Scottish hunting estates, where keepers patrolled the land against poachers while quietly deciding which creatures got to live long enough to be hunted by someone else.
- actual job
- manages land so some can be shot later
- lady chatterley
- made the profession scandalously famous
- predator control
- kills foxes to save pheasants from foxes
- conservation irony
- often funds Britain's most protected habitats