custodial

English

Etymology

From custody +‎ -al; compare French custodial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʌsˈtoʊ.di.əl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

custodial (comparative more custodial, superlative most custodial)

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
• custodialism
• custodially
• custodial parent
• custodial rape
• custodial sentence
• custodial symmetry
• noncustodial
• postcustodial

Related terms

• custodian
• custody

Translations

providing protection, care, supervision or guarding

Hungarian: ápolási (hu), gondozási, gondnoki, takarítási (hu), tisztasági (hu), ápoló (hu), gondozó (hu), takarító (hu)

of, pertaining to or providing custody, especially of a child

Hungarian: gondozási, gyámsági (hu), gyermekelhelyezési

providing punishment by incarceration

Hungarian: börtönbüntetéses, fegyházbüntetéses, szabadságvesztéses, börtönbüntetéssel/​fegyházbüntetéssel/​szabadságvesztéssel járó

Further reading

• “custodial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “custodial”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “custodial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.