guardian

  • 21Guardian.co.uk — Infobox Website name = guardian.co.uk caption = Frontpage, 19 February 2008. url = [http://www.guardian.co.uk/ guardian.co.uk] commercial = Yes type = Online Newspaper language = English registration = owner = Guardian Media Group author = The… …

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  • 22guardian — A person lawfully invested with the power, and charged with the duty, of taking care of the person and managing the property and rights of another person, who, for defect of age, understanding, or self control, is considered incapable of… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 23guardian — A person lawfully invested with the power, and charged with the duty, of taking care of the person and managing the property and rights of another person, who, for defect of age, understanding, or self control, is considered incapable of… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 24Guardian — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Guardian », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Le mot guardian peut désigner : Sommaire …

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  • 25guardian — guardianless, adj. /gahr dee euhn/, n. 1. a person who guards, protects, or preserves. 2. Law. a person who is entrusted by law with the care of the person or property, or both, of another, as a minor or someone legally incapable of managing his… …

    Universalium

  • 26guardian —    Legally a guardian has the responsibility of looking after a child, or an adult incapable of looking after himself, in place of the natural parent. The word is also more loosely used of one who protects another. Thus Diomedes, in Shakespeare’s …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 27guardian — An individual or trust institution appointed by a court to care for a minor or an incompetent person and his or her property. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * guardian guard‧i‧an [ˈgɑːdiən ǁ ˈgɑːr ] noun [countable] LAW someone who is legally …

    Financial and business terms

  • 28guardian — A person to whom the law has intrusted the custody and control of the person, or estate, or both, of an infant, lunatic or incompetent person. A person in a trust relation of the most sacred character, known as a guardianship, in which he acts… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 29guardian — noun 1 person/institution that guards/protects sth ADJECTIVE ▪ self appointed ▪ She has become the self appointed guardian of the nation s conscience. ▪ moral VERB + GUARDIAN ▪ act as …

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  • 30guardian — n. 1) to appoint smb. guardian 2) (often fig.) a self appointed guardian * * * [ gɑːdɪən] (often fig.) a self appointed guardian to appoint smb. guardian …

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