guardianship
(noun)
noun
1. attention and management implying responsibility for safety
Similar word(s): care, charge, tutelage
Definition categories: act, protection
2. the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
Similar word(s): keeping, safekeeping
Definition categories: act, duty, obligation, responsibility
Sentences with guardianship as a noun:
- 1986 Philip Bean, "Mental Disorder and Legal Control" - Page 84 An application for guardianship must be founded on two medical recommendations, the procedure being similar to an application for admission for treatment.Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers' daughters and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your step-