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попечи́тельница — meaning in English

popechitelnitsa

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • trustee noun A person or organisation legally responsible for managing property or money on behalf of someone else.

Senses

попечи́тельница is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • trustee (trust law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals (beneficiaries), or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.

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.

fiduciary — full definition

  1. 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.
  2. adjective Relating to the legal duty of trust and loyalty owed by someone who acts on another person's behalf.
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