Usually means: Legal authority over someone's care.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word custody:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. custody: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. custody: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. custody: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. custody: Collins English Dictionary
  5. custody: Vocabulary.com
  6. Custody, custody: Wordnik
  7. custody: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. custody: Wiktionary
  9. custody: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. custody: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. custody: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. custody: Dictionary.com
  13. custody: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. custody: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Custody: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Custody: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. custody: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. custody: Rhymezone
  19. custody: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. custody: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. custody: Free Dictionary
  22. custody: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. custody: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. custody: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. custody: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. custody: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. custody: Legal dictionary
  11. Custody: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. custody: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  2. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  3. custody: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. custody: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. custody: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See custodies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
noun:  Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
noun:  The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.

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