English words for 'Befitting a guardian.'
Closest matches for "Befitting a guardian." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
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verb
noun
- a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
- One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
- (UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
- (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.
- (UK) A homeroom.
adj
noun
noun
- the responsibility of a guardian
- the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
- the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
- the storage of assets in a protected area
- (US) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
noun
verb
noun
- a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste
- a dog trained to guard property
- (electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
- A guard dog.
- (figurative) An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
verb
noun
noun
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- (fantasy) An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- (UK) A division of a forest.
- An object used for guarding.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
- a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
- a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
- a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
verb
- (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches. (usually followed by off)
- (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
- (transitive) To defend, to protect.
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
verb
- To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
- To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
- (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
- (intransitive) To contribute to or toward some outcome.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
- (law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- (auxiliary) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
- (transitive, nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
- have care of or look after
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- manage or run
verb
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
noun
- Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
- Customers collectively; clientele; business.
- (UK, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
- A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
- The right of nomination to political office.
- The act or state of being a customer of some business.
- Patronising speech or behaviour.
- (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
- The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
- the act of providing approval and support
- a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
- customers collectively
- (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
verb
verb
noun
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
- (information technology) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
- (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- Someone responsible for organizing an event
- (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
- (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- (higher education) An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- (motor racing) A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents.
- A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
- A bartender.
- A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
- A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.
- one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
- someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else
- a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management
- the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements
- an attendant on an airplane
noun
- A patron; a protector.
- A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Greek or Italian labourers, street musicians, child beggars, etc.
- The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
- A mafia boss.
- A landlord; the master of a large estate.
- an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy
- an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S.
noun
- A watchful guardian, especially a duenna in charge of a young woman.
- A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.
- An English variety of apple.
- A griffon vulture, a large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible.
- A cadet newly arrived in British India: half English, half Indian.
- winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion
noun
name
noun
- The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding.
- Instruction; teaching; guidance; being a tutor.
- The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; the care or protection enjoyed; being a ward or a tutee.
- teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
noun
- Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
- (US military) A servicemember of the United States Space Force.
- (video games) A major or final enemy; boss.
- (law) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
- A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
- (law) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
- a person who cares for persons or property
noun
- A sentry, watch, or guard.
- (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
- (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
- A sentinel crab.
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
verb
noun
- a harshly demanding overseer
- a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm
- a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm
- (slang) An erect penis.
- Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
- (firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
- A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
- One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
- An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
- someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
verb
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
- conduct someone someplace
- accompany as an escort
noun
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
- a participant in a date
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
noun
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to someone’s possession or supervision.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable. [from 18th c.]
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion.
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
- the proper sphere or extent of your activities
- a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
noun
- Initialism of custodial parent.
- (virology) Initialism of capsid protein.
- (UK politics) Initialism of command paper.
- (4chan slang, humorous, euphemistic) Initialism of cheese pizza (“child pornography”).
- (law enforcement) Initialism of containment perimeter.
- (mathematics) Initialism of critical point.
- (British) Initialism of county primary or community primary (school).
- Initialism of cerebral palsy.
- (Philippines, text messaging) Initialism of cellphone.
- (computing) Initialism of codepage.
- (Internet, euphemistic) Initialism of child pornography.
- Initialism of corporal punishment.
- (origami) Initialism of crease pattern.
- (physics) Initialism of charge-parity.
- (physics) Initialism of center of pressure.
- (military) Initialism of command post.
- (education) Initialism of college prep; college preparatory.
- Initialism of cyberpunk.
- (Philippines, construction) Initialism of contract package.
- Initialism of civil parish (used on OS 1:25 000 scale Explorer maps).
- (linguistics) Initialism of complementizer phrase.
adj
name
noun
verb
- (by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
- To control or limit access to something.
- (sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
noun
- One who gatekeeps.
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- (computing) A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
- (psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
- someone who controls access to something
- someone who guards an entrance
noun
- A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.
- (historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
- (nautical) A padrone.
- (UK, ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
- A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
- An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
- One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
- the proprietor of an inn
- a regular customer
- someone who supports or champions something
verb
noun
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- The source or origin of something.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- A surrogate parent.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
noun
- the responsibility of a guardian
- the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
- the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
- the storage of assets in a protected area
- (US) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
noun
verb
noun
- a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste
- a dog trained to guard property
- (electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
- A guard dog.
- (figurative) An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
verb
noun
noun
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- (fantasy) An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- (UK) A division of a forest.
- An object used for guarding.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
- a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
- a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
- a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
verb
- (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches. (usually followed by off)
- (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
- (transitive) To defend, to protect.
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
noun
- Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
- Customers collectively; clientele; business.
- (UK, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
- A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
- The right of nomination to political office.
- The act or state of being a customer of some business.
- Patronising speech or behaviour.
- (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
- The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
- the act of providing approval and support
- a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
- customers collectively
- (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
verb
noun
- A patron; a protector.
- A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Greek or Italian labourers, street musicians, child beggars, etc.
- The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
- A mafia boss.
- A landlord; the master of a large estate.
- an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy
- an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S.
noun
- A watchful guardian, especially a duenna in charge of a young woman.
- A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.
- An English variety of apple.
- A griffon vulture, a large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible.
- A cadet newly arrived in British India: half English, half Indian.
- winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion
noun
name
noun
- The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding.
- Instruction; teaching; guidance; being a tutor.
- The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; the care or protection enjoyed; being a ward or a tutee.
- teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
noun
- Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
- (US military) A servicemember of the United States Space Force.
- (video games) A major or final enemy; boss.
- (law) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
- A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
- (law) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
- a person who cares for persons or property
noun
- A sentry, watch, or guard.
- (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
- (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
- A sentinel crab.
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
verb
noun
- a harshly demanding overseer
- a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm
- a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm
- (slang) An erect penis.
- Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
- (firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
verb
noun
- (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
- A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
- One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
- An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
- someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
noun
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to someone’s possession or supervision.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable. [from 18th c.]
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion.
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
- the proper sphere or extent of your activities
- a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
noun
- Initialism of custodial parent.
- (virology) Initialism of capsid protein.
- (UK politics) Initialism of command paper.
- (4chan slang, humorous, euphemistic) Initialism of cheese pizza (“child pornography”).
- (law enforcement) Initialism of containment perimeter.
- (mathematics) Initialism of critical point.
- (British) Initialism of county primary or community primary (school).
- Initialism of cerebral palsy.
- (Philippines, text messaging) Initialism of cellphone.
- (computing) Initialism of codepage.
- (Internet, euphemistic) Initialism of child pornography.
- Initialism of corporal punishment.
- (origami) Initialism of crease pattern.
- (physics) Initialism of charge-parity.
- (physics) Initialism of center of pressure.
- (military) Initialism of command post.
- (education) Initialism of college prep; college preparatory.
- Initialism of cyberpunk.
- (Philippines, construction) Initialism of contract package.
- Initialism of civil parish (used on OS 1:25 000 scale Explorer maps).
- (linguistics) Initialism of complementizer phrase.
adj
name
noun
verb
- (by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
- To control or limit access to something.
- (sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
noun
- One who gatekeeps.
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- (computing) A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
- (psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
- someone who controls access to something
- someone who guards an entrance
noun
- A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.
- (historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
- (nautical) A padrone.
- (UK, ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
- A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
- An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
- One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
- the proprietor of an inn
- a regular customer
- someone who supports or champions something
verb
noun
- a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
- One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
- (UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
- (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.
- (UK) A homeroom.
verb
- To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
- To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
- (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
- (intransitive) To contribute to or toward some outcome.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
- (law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- (auxiliary) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
- (transitive, nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
- have care of or look after
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- manage or run
verb
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
noun
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
- (information technology) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
- (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- Someone responsible for organizing an event
- (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
- (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- (higher education) An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- (motor racing) A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents.
- A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
- A bartender.
- A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
- A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.
- one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
- someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else
- a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management
- the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements
- an attendant on an airplane
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- a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste
- a dog trained to guard property
- (electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
- A guard dog.
- (figurative) An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
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- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
- conduct someone someplace
- accompany as an escort
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- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
- a participant in a date
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
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- A sentry, watch, or guard.
- (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
- (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
- A sentinel crab.
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
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- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- The source or origin of something.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- A surrogate parent.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained