custodian
Americannoun
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a person who has custody; keeper; guardian.
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a person entrusted with guarding or maintaining a property; janitor.
noun
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a person who has custody, as of a prisoner, ward, etc
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a guardian or keeper, as of an art collection, etc
Other Word Forms
- custodianship noun
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When that crisis affects the credibility of banks—whether they are fiduciaries, depositories or custodians of crypto assets—it puts the entire banking system and perhaps the economy at risk.
A retirement-account custodian like Vanguard sends messages to clients, provides educational materials on its portals and makes things easy with automated withdrawal systems.
From MarketWatch
On Dec. 1, he rented a car in Boston and drove to Brown’s campus in Providence, R.I., where a custodian saw him in a bathroom near the lecture hall, according to an affidavit.
A QCD has to be administered by the account custodian and sent directly to the charity in order to count, although there’s proposed legislation that would change this in the future.
From MarketWatch
If asked, the custodian could only say, “The matter has been resolved.”
From Los Angeles Times
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