keyholder
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Noun
keyholder (plural keyholders)
- One who holds the key for security reasons.
- Synonym: claviger
- A device or component for holding a key.
- (cryptography) The individual or organization with access to a cryptographic key.
- 1978, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 32:
- A key duplicating machine comprising […] a keyholder attached to said shaft, said keyholder providing for holding a key blank and an existing key having notches thereon; […]
- (BDSM) A dominant partner who locks their submissive partner in a chastity belt or chastity cage, or otherwise controls whether the submissive partner is able or allowed to receive orgasms or sexual stimulation.
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one who holds the key to a building