Usually means: Acting in place of parents.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. in loco parentis: Merriam-Webster
  2. in loco parentis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. in loco parentis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. in loco parentis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. in loco parentis: Vocabulary.com
  6. in loco parentis: Wordnik
  7. in loco parentis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. in loco parentis: Wiktionary
  9. in loco parentis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. in loco parentis: Dictionary.com
  11. in loco parentis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. In Loco Parentis, In loco parentis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. in loco parentis: Rhymezone
  14. in loco parentis: FreeDictionary.org
  15. in loco parentis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. in loco parentis: Foreign Words and Phrases
  17. in loco parentis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. in loco parentis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. in loco parentis: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. in loco parentis: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. In loco parentis: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. in loco parentis: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. in loco parentis: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (in loco parentis)

adverb:  (law) Assuming the place or position of a parent.

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