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custody

/kuhs-tuh-dee/US // ˈkʌs tə di //UK // (ˈkʌstədɪ) //

监护权,保管,监护,监管

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cus·to·dies.

    • : keeping; guardianship; care.
    • : the keeping or charge of officers of the law: The car was held in the custody of the police.
    • : imprisonment; legal restraint: He was taken into custody.
    • : Also called child custody. Law. the right of determining the residence, protection, care, and education of a minor child or children, especially in a divorce or separation.Compare joint custody, sole custody.

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Examples

  • Pauline Binam, a 30-year-old former detainee at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, had been in custody for about two years when she started having irregular menstrual bleeding.

  • In the spring of 2015, the death of Freddie Gray, 25, from injuries sustained in police custody brought demonstrators into the streets of Baltimore.

  • Hundreds of protesters gathered, but many of them were immediately taken into custody.

  • By Simonis’s own estimation, the scientist spent around eight hours in the agents’ custody.

  • Courts have also had trouble enforcing the orders and continuing to receive information from the government about migrants in its custody, she said.

  • If she got caught with a shank, they would up her custody level.

  • While Faal and Njie are in U.S. custody, the whereabouts of the other survivors is unknown.

  • Parents who want to transfer custody of a child to someone other than a relative must seek permission from a judge.

  • But until recently, there was no requirement for government agencies to report deaths in police custody.

  • During two years in Iranian custody, Abdolhamid provided crucial details of how Jundullah operated.

  • Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?

  • The 'cage' was simply an arrangement for 'straiter custody,' though but rarely judged necessary in the case of ladies.

  • But if an officer touches you and takes you into custody there is an arrest even though you run away afterward.

  • And he went, and defeated the army of Demetrius: and took him, and brought him to Arsaces, and he put him into custody.

  • This evening my wife gives me all my linen, which I have put up, and intend to keep it now in my own custody.