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Definition: Custodial |
CustodialAdjective1. Providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding; "daycare that is educational and not just custodial"; "a guardian angel"; "tutelary gods". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "custodial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Synonyms: CustodialSynonyms: guardian (adj), tutelar (adj), tutelary (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Custodial |
| English words defined with "custodial": trust company, trust corporation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "custodial": BUSINESS MANAGER, COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY ♦ custodial gift ♦ DIRECTOR, CORRECTIONAL AGENCY ♦ Inclusion of health insurance in child support award ♦ MANAGER, WINTER SPORTS, Medical Savings Accounts ♦ PROBATION-AND-PAROLE OFFICER ♦ School,, sentence of detention, sentence of imprisonment, sentence of penal servitude, severe retardate, severely retarded, shuttle-bus driver, STATION MANAGER ♦ van driver. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Should you stand before me again, I shall not hesitate to impose a custodial sentence. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Custodial Procedures (1964) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | Unless adequate preventive measures are taken to dispel the compulsion inherent in custodial surroundings, no statement obtained from the defendant can truly be the product of his free choice. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | India | The NHRC continue to use old concepts of mental health care and essentially function as custodial rather than therapeutic institutions. (references) |
Economic History | India | Despite improvements, Indian stock exchanges still lack adequate safeguards against manipulation, and suffer from inadequate custodial services and lengthy delays in physical certificate delivery. (references) |
Human Rights | India | In addition police commonly torture detainees during custodial interrogation. (references) |
Trade | New Zealand | A wholly owned affiliate of State Street Bank is the primary custodial bank in market. (references) |
Romania | They may take deposits, make loans, issue guarantees and letters of credit, trade securities and other financial instruments, provide depository and custodial services, and engage in other activities traditionally performed by large commercial banks. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Custodial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Custodial" is used about 233 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 233 | 19,663 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "custodial": custodial account ♦ Custodial Care ♦ custodial fees ♦ custodial sentence. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "custodial": non-custodial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "custodial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 保管. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trest na svobodì (custodial sentence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | frihedsstraf (custodial sentence), depotgebyrer (custodial fees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vrijheidsstraf (custodial sentence, deprivation of liberty), sanctie van vrijheidsbeneming (custodial sentence), Penitentiaire beginselenwet (Custodial Institutions Act), PBW (Custodial Institutions Act), justitiële jeugdinrichting (youth custodial institution), Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (Custodial Institutions Service), bewaarloon (custodial fees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vapausrangaistus (custodial sentence), säilytyskustannukset (custodial fees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Service des Etablissements pénitentiaires (Custodial Institutions Service), peine privative de liberté (custodial sentence), peine corporelle (custodial sentence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pflegerisch (nursing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κηδεμονικόσ (tutelar, tutelary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felügyelői, ereklyetartó (reliquary, shrine), őri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | di guardiano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 간수하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustodialcay pena privativa de liberdade (custodial sentence). (various references) pena de privación de libertad (custodial sentence), derechos de custodia (custodial fees). (various references) frihetsstraff (confinement, imprisonment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "custodial": noncustodial. (additional references) | |
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"Custodial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: custodia, custodially, Custodiat, custodiet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "custodial" (pronounced kustō"dēul) |
| 5 | -ō" d ē u l | pseudopodial. |
| 4 | -d ē u l | medial, myocardial, primordial, radial, remedial. |
| 3 | -ē u l | actuarial, adverbial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, alluvial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, biomaterial, bronchial, burial, centennial, cereal, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, conspiratorial, convivial, curatorial, decennial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, entrepreneurial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, filial, fluvial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, industrial, intracranial, janitorial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, magisterial, malarial, managerial, marsupial, material, matrilineal, matrimonial, memorial, menial, mercurial, microbial, millennial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pictorial, pluvial, polynomial, professorial, prosecutorial, proverbial, quadrennial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, terrestrial, territorial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, tutorial, venereal, vestigial, vitriol. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-l-o-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: citolas, cladist, cotidal, couldst, dacoits, dualist, locusta, oculist, outlaid, outsail, stoical, talcous, toluids, tuladis. | |
-3 letters: adults, alcids, audios, audits, caulds, caulis, citola, clouds, clouts, coatis, coital, coitus, costal, coulis, cutlas, dacoit, dicast, dicots, distal, ducats, ductal, dulias, locust, octads, oscula, scotia, social, stolid, studio, ticals, toluic, toluid, tuladi. | |
-4 letters: acids, acold, adios, adits. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-l-o-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: colatitudes, duplicators, elucidators, inosculated. | |
+3 letters: acidulations, discountable, duplications, elucidations, noncustodial, nucleotidase. | |
+4 letters: claudications, disfunctional, documentalist, dysfunctional, nucleotidases. | |
+5 letters: conceptualised, denticulations, discombobulate, documentalists, educationalist, jurisdictional, rediscountable, reduplications, transductional, unconsolidated. | |
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