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custodial
[ kuh-stoh-dee-uhl ]
adjective
- of or relating to custody.
- of, relating to, or appropriate to a custodian:
a building superintendent's custodial duties.
- responsible for or providing protective supervision and guardianship rather than seeking to improve or cure:
Overcrowding forces many mental hospitals to provide only custodial care.
noun
- a container or receptacle for something sacred, as the Host.
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Other Words From
- cus·todi·al·ism noun
- noncus·todi·al adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of custodial1
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Example Sentences
Now sources say the DJ is attempting to gain custodial rights to his child.
Step by step, the penal and custodial apparatus of the United States has become larger, more belligerent, and more brazen.
North Dakota requires two-parent notification and custodial parent consent for minors, as well as a 24-hour waiting period.
Police hoped the bugging operation would result in long custodial sentences for both police and journalists.
This prophylactic rule requires suppression of any custodial statement made before the warnings are given.
Other measures recommended were the custodial care of the feeble-minded, and State control of the use of alcohol.
A certain sum would also be received from the families of some of the inmates of the training schools and custodial institutions.
Many cases of mental alienation improve promptly under custodial care, many need it all their lives.
The increase and classification of the custodial population here contemplated is a problem for administrative charity.
As they grow older they will be transferred to proper custodial institutions.
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