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Of or relating to the work of guarding or maintaining: the custodial duties of a security guard.
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Having custody, especially of a child: "children whose custodial parent has remarried” ( American Demographics).
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Of or relating to child custody: custodial households.
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Marked by care and supervision rather than efforts to cure: custodial treatment of terminal patients.
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American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.