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custodial
Word definitions for custodial in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Custodial \Cus*to"di*al\ (k?s-t?"d?-al), a. [Cf. F. custodial, fr. L. custodia. See Custody .] Relating to custody or guardianship.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES custodial sentence COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN sentence ▪ We want a minimum one-year custodial sentence-longer for repeat offenders and organised gangs. ▪ However, Blacks had significantly higher proportions ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1772, from custody (Latin custodia ) + -al (1).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Providing protection, care, supervision or guarding 2 Of, pertaining to or providing custody, especially of a child 3 Providing punishment by incarceration
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ]
Usage examples of custodial.
He had agreed to give Liysa custodial rights long before Bjorn was even conceived.
In one year, that was the number of children whose custodial parent reported them as abducted by a former spouse or other family member.
Cooksey had a clear-cut idea of what he wanted to do after his prison stint, so when Barb wrangled him an interview for an opening on the Speedway custodial crew he went along with the idea, at least at first, but he also went to his uncle Tom Alton and got a false identity made up in the name of Cooksey, not Corcoran, that described a man recently discharged from the U.
Sanguis Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodial animam tuam in vitam aeternam.
The custodial staff brought risers out and set up a stage on the grass.
Gentle's claque of doo-wopping Motown cabinet-puppets have purple dresses and matching lipstick and nail polish, and bouffants so blindingly Afrosheened that there had been special lighting and film-speed problems in the custodial closet: SEC.
And there existed chickenheads infinitely stupider than Isidore, who could hold no jobs at all, who remained in custodial institutions quaintly called "Institute of Special Trade Skills of America," the word "special" having to get in there somehow, as always.
There wasn't any light switch in the hallway - Drew assumed that the switch was on a master panel in a custodial room he'd never been shown - so he reached up, tall enough to wrap his scapular around the bulb and unscrew it.
The Surgeon-Captain is an ethical and highly moral being who would consider it dishonorable to escape what it will consider to be a justly imposed punishment for its crime by means of suicide, even though a custodial sentence would be the harshest, in terms of continued mental distress, that could be imposed.
On the third occasion, the court decided not to give him a custodial sentence, on the condition that he move to Manchester to live with Peggy and her husband Patrick Brady.
The Inspector happened to catch sight of a man who had served a single custodial sentence, and immediately suspected the worst, and acted on that suspicion - quite wrongly, as it turned out.
He'd been lucky though, landing more than his fair share of fines and tickings-off when a custodial sentence might have been more usual.
Peter was to neither approach nor contact Polly for an indefinite period, and should he try to do so he risked a custodial sentence.
That sense of humour was doubtless painfully tested when the less-than-understanding sheriff imposed a custodial sentence, but for McGregor at least it seemed to draw some kind of line under the matter.
Justice Erskine-Brown (PhillidaTrant as she was in happier days when I called her the Portia of our Chambers), still possessed of a beauty that would break the hearts of the toughest prosecutors and make old lags swoon with lust even as she passed a stiff custodial sentence.