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Protection and protectors
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anti-shark
anti-skid
chaperone
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den mother
doorkeeper
elder care
preservationist
rewilding
ring-fence
safe space
safeguarding
safekeeping
weatherstripping
white knight
witness protection

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custodian | American Dictionary

custodian
noun[ C ]
us/kʌsˈtoʊ·di·ən/
a person or organization that is responsible for protecting, caring for, or maintaining something or someone:
The library is a traditional custodian of information.
The school’s crisis team includes teachers, custodians, and the principal.

custodian | Business English

custodian
noun[ C ]
uk /kʌsˈtəʊdiən/us
LAW, FINANCE
someone who has the legal right to manage and look after another person's money, investments, etc.:
The report was sent to the owners and the custodians of the corporation's voting stock.

Examples of custodian

custodian
The system also prompts custodians for regular input of evaluations of indicator status.
Data that cannot be easily loaded by the custodian on the web are bulk-loaded into the database by a system administrator using a standard template.
A collective achieved this by means of the sardar, who was the point of negotiation and the financial custodian.
Ready access to all the indicator data in the database system can assist custodians to analyse their data.
The system has entry points on the web for the public, custodians, and administrators.
The custodians appear as women, hold the belts, and dance around the post.
They may also need to advertise or use external custodians.
The report includes graphed or tabular data and the most recent status report by the indicator custodian: the evaluation.
Salaries for administrators, custodians, and other support personnel cannot be counted as part of the 60 per cent.
The data management and display functions are augmented by automatic notification to custodians of required input to the system.
The system captures indicator data either dynamically from sensors or by web input by indicator custodians.
The indicator custodians are the knowledge of the system.
The custodian can enter the required data or an evaluation report for that indicator using the web.
All this information is stored in the database, including any interactions with custodians.
In each cycle, justification was found for going behind the custodian's return.
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