Synonyms for guardianship
ˈgɑr di ənˌʃɪpguardian·ship

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1. care, charge, tutelage, guardianshipnoun

   attention and management implying responsibility for safety

   "he is in the care of a bodyguard"

   Synonyms:
   fear, keeping, accusation, commission, electric charge, explosive charge, tutorship, burster, caution, care, concern, complaint, kick, tending, heraldic bearing, billing, cathexis, maintenance, aid, tutelage, forethought, boot, bursting charge, armorial bearing, direction, charge, safekeeping, bearing, flush, attention, thrill, rush, precaution, bang, tuition, mission, upkeep

2. guardianship, keeping, safekeepingnoun

   the responsibility of a guardian or keeper

   "he left his car in my keeping"

   Synonyms:
   charge, retention, keeping, care, safekeeping, holding, tutelage

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1. • Protection

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1. guardianshipnoun

   Synonyms:
   protection, care, watch, wardenship, tutelage

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1. List of paraphrases for "guardianship":

   trusteeship, tutorship, tutelage, custody, tutelary, curatorship, wardship, tutela, guardian, tutelle, protection, care, parent, custodianship

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1. Jennifer Mathis:

   We don't expect that of voters without disabilities. We don't scrutinize the rationality of their choices, i think if you ask the average voter on the street some of the questions that people with disabilities get asked in these guardianship proceedings, they wouldn't be able to answer them.

2. Rothna Begum:

   It continues to happen in the context of wider discrimination against women, particularly the male guardianship system in which women have to, still, require permission for traveling abroad, to marry or to undertake higher education.

3. Caroll Spinney:

   Big Bird brought me so many places, opened my mind and nurtured my soul, and I plan to be an ambassador for Sesame Workshop for many years to come. After all, Eric Jacobson're a family ! But now Sesame Workshop for many years's time for two performers that I have worked with and respected -- and actually hand-picked for the guardianship of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch -- to take my alter-egos into their hands and continue to give them life.

4. Stephanie Escamilla:

   I worry for my son because right now he's succeeding and he's doing OK and he's taking his medications but once he turns 18 and he learns that he's an adult, he can do whatever he would like to do, he can just stop going to his psychiatric visits, drop all his medications and what can I do? I can't force him unless I have guardianship.

5. Wendy Young:

   I've been working on this issue for 30 years. I can only think of maybe half a dozen cases where one of the unaccompanied kids has actually been put up for adoption, that's usually done when there's evidence that the parents are dead, and there's no other family member who can attain guardianship.