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опеку́н — meaning in English

opekun

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English meaning

  • administrator noun A person who manages or directs the affairs of an organization, department, or estate.
  • custodian noun A person responsible for looking after or protecting something.
  • fiduciary noun A person or organisation legally required to manage money or property in someone else's best interests rather than their own, such as a trustee, executor or certain financial advisers.
  • guardian noun Someone who protects or watches over a person or thing.
  • parent noun A person who raises, cares for, or has legal responsibility for a child.

Senses

опеку́н is used for these senses in English:

  • administrator (legal) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
  • custodian A person entrusted with the custody or care of something or someone; a caretaker or keeper.
  • fiduciary (legal) One who holds a thing in trust for another.
  • guardian (legal) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
  • guardian (legal) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
  • parent (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.

administrator — full definition

  1. noun A person who manages or directs the affairs of an organization, department, or estate.
  2. noun A person responsible for maintaining a computer system or network.

custodian — full definition

  1. noun A person responsible for looking after or protecting something.
  2. noun US: a janitor or cleaner, especially in a school or office building.

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