Word Finder - custodian

definition

A person entrusted with the custody or care of something or someone; a caretaker or keeper.

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After their parents' death, their aunt became the children's custodian.

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A janitor; a cleaner

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The custodian does such admirable work, deftly wielding a mop to keep our hallways and sidewalks free of buai pekpek left by people who chew betelnuts to be "cool" but don't even bother finding a rubbish bin or spit cup to dispose of the pekpek with.

He made Raphael custodian of the classical antiquities of Rome and the vicinity.

In March 1578, a coalition of his public and private foes caused Morton to resign the regency, while the young earl of Mar became custodian of the boy king.

The BBC still remains the sole custodian of contemporary music in the UK.

Sometimes a charity also has a custodian trustee or holding trustees.

There will be two categories of custodian - authorized custodian and recognized custodian.

Can a local authority be the custodian trustee of a charity?

Earlier this year, the official custodian of the NHS's data raised eyebrows by announcing a special relationship with a commercial firm.

The CPP Secretariat will inform the audit custodian of product changes notified to CPP.

Appointing the Official Custodian for Charities Land holding Service to hold a leasehold or freehold property.

As of January 2004, any individual can establish a health savings account with a qualified HSA trustee or custodian.

Other schemes use the service provided by their global custodian.

The Museum is currently the temporary custodian of several interesting vehicles.

The NBNT needs to determine whether they are truly generic and applicable to all types of custodian likely to supply data to the NBN.

He was brought into the family business as a custodian and secretary, answering phones and doing odd jobs around the shop.

Get to know your garden You have just become the custodian of an established garden or possibly a brand new plot.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the custodian of many of the historical war records.

Under the old Internment Statute of 1789, the Attorney-General was authorized by the President to intern dangerous enemy aliens and by an Act of Congress the Alien Property Custodian assumed charge of enemy aliens' property.

In 1823 he was appointed custodian of the university library at Breslau, a post which he held till 1838.

In 1221 Falkes de Breaute, then custodian of the borough, rendered a palfrey for holding a three days' fair at the feast of All Saints, transferred in 1247 to the feast of St Margaret, and still held under that grant.

The Kongelov is dated and subscribed the 14th of November 1665, but was kept a profound secret, only two initiated persons knowing of its existence until after the death of Frederick III., one of them being Kristoffer Gabel, the king's chief intermediary during the revolution, and the other the author and custodian of the Kongelov, Secretary Peder Schumacher, better known as Griffenfeldt.

He is usually described as the chaplain of Rufus; he seems in that capacity to have been the head of the chancery and the custodian of the great seal.

The political events of 1808 necessitated his withdrawal from Rome (to which he had meanwhile returned) to Milan, where in 1813 he was made custodian of the Ambrosian library.

In 1917 he was appointed alien property custodian under the " Trading with the Enemy Act," and within 18 months was administering 32,000 trusts, valued at $503,000,000.

The Senate refused to confirm the appointment until his record as alien property custodian had been investigated, on the ground that he had made his office a " political machine."

The domestic dog would be brought into the sacred circle through the increased veneration for animals, and the more pronounced view in later times of Anubis as servant, messenger and custodian of the gods.

Arakcheev was a faithful custodian to enforce order and acted as the sovereign's bodyguard.

Before, on the 9th of July, the Russian fleet, with the Russian troops on board, weighed anchor for the Black Sea, there was signed at the palace of Unkiar Skelassi the famous treaty (July 8, 1833) which, under the guise of an offensive and defensive alliance, practically made Russia the custodian of the gates of the Black Sea.

To this the dietines, or local diets, of Great Poland, and Little Poland, agreed, but at the last moment the whole project foundered on the question who was the proper custodian of the new assessment rolls, and the king had to be content with the renewal of former subsidies, varying from twelve to fifteen groats per hide of land for three years.