Definition of "custodial" []

• Of or relating to the work of guarding or maintaining: the custodial duties of a security guard. (adjective)
• Having custody, especially of a child: "children whose custodial parent has remarried” ( American Demographics). (adjective)
• Of or relating to child custody: custodial households. (adjective)
• Marked by care and supervision rather than efforts to cure: custodial treatment of terminal patients. (adjective)

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• "BNY Mellon provided the pension funds with what are known as "custodial" and back-office financial services."
• ""[O] nce defendant was physically taken into custody and handcuffed, the potential for coercion was as great as that which inheres in custodial interrogation by a police officer, and ... administration of the Miranda warnings was required to dispel that potential coercion in order for defendant's statement to be admissible in a criminal trial.""
• "The right way is called the custodial account; the wrong way is to do what all too many parents and grandparents do—open a joint account."