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What (who) is custody - definition
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Custody (disambiguation); Custody (film)
custody
n.
guardianship
1) to award, grant custody
2) to receive, take custody
3) joint custody
arrest
4) to take smb. into custody
5) police; protective custody
6) in custody ('under arrest') (held in custody)
custody
1.
Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.
I'm going to go to court to get custody of the children...
Child custody is normally granted to the mother.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n
2.
Someone who is in custody or has been taken into custody has been arrested and is being kept in prison until they can be tried in a court.
Three people appeared in court and two of them were remanded in custody...
She was taken into custody later that day.
PHRASE: PHR after v
3.
If someone is being held in a particular type of custody, they are being kept in a place that is similar to a prison.
Barrett was taken into protective custody.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
custody
n.
1.
Keeping, care, watch, guardianship, protection, safe-keeping.
2.
Confinement, imprisonment, prison, durance, duress.
Examples of use of custody
1. Deaths in custody At least three people died in custody.
2. He urged the court to remand Praveen to judicial custody and not police custody.
3. Bach, 42, has custody of one daughter while Hasselhoff, 53, has custody of the other.
4. And as his identity is revealed, from safe–custody, he is now in police custody.
5. A Pennsylvania court awarded primary custody of the children to Bimber last year, a rarity in surrogate custody cases.