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Custodial   /kəstˈoʊdiəl/   Listen
Custodial

adjective
1.
Providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding.  Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary.  "A guardian angel" , "Tutelary gods"



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"Custodial" Quotes from Famous Books



... than in remedying it. The minimum wage law brings to light the industrial incapacity of particular individuals to earn a living wage. The direct remedy is to abolish the incapable workers or their incapacity by such methods as regulating foreign or cityward immigration, custodial care of the physically, mentally, and morally weak, vocational guidance, and more effective measures of industrial education. Alongside of the abnormally low paid occupations or elsewhere in the industrial ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter

... her at school, but she was reported to the Committee on the Physical Welfare of School Children. The parents could not control her. The girl was taken for examination by a specialist and found to be feeble-minded. Later she was sent to a custodial institute. ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen



Words linked to "Custodial" :   protective, custody, custodian



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