Thesaurus: custody

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1. n. A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
2. n. Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
3. n. State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
4. n. a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
5. n. holding by the police
6. n. (with ‘in’) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
7. 1. A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon. 2. Judicial or penal safe-keeping. Jailer, take him to thy custody. Shak. 3. State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment. What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment Milton.
8. n:100 n. holding by the police