custodial adj : providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding; "daycare that is educational and not just custodial"; "a guardian angel"; "tutelary gods" [syn: guardian, tutelary, tutelar]

English

Adjective

1. Providing protection, care, supervision or guarding
2. Of, pertaining to or providing custody, especially of a child
3. Providing punishment by incarceration

Derived terms

• custodial account
• custodial area
• custodial care
• custodial interrogation
• custodial parent
• custodial rape
• custodial sentence
• custodial symmetry

Related terms

• custodian
• custody

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