The man was held in police custody.
Source: tatoeba (45325)
Custody
//ˈkʌstədiː//
Synonyms for "custody" (103 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (51)
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2 entriesderived
9 entriesis a
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4 entriesTranslations
124 translations across 37 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- حَبْس noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- حِرَاسَة نَظَرِيَّة noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- böyüklük noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Belarusian
1 entries- апе́ка noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Bengali
2 entries- হেফাজত noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- হেফাজত noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Bulgarian
3 entries- аре́ст noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- опе́ка noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- съхране́ние noun (temporary possession)
Catalan
2 entries- custòdia noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- custòdia noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 保管 noun (temporary possession)
- 保護 /保护 noun (temporary possession)
- 拘留 noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- 撫養權 /抚养权 noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Czech
2 entries- kustodie noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- vazba noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Danish
2 entries- forældremyndighed noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- varetægt noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Dutch
1 entries- hoederecht noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Finnish
4 entries- hallussapito noun (temporary possession)
- huoltajuus noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- huosta noun (temporary possession)
- pidätys noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
French
4 entries- custodie noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- détention noun (temporary possession)
- détention noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- garde noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
German
4 entries- Aufbewahrung noun (temporary possession)
- Haft noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- Kustodie noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- Obhut noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Hebrew
1 entries- משמורת noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
Hindi
4 entries- अभिरक्षण noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- अभिरक्षा noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- अभिरक्षा noun (temporary possession)
- रक्षा noun (temporary possession)
Hungarian
4 entries- (szülői) felügyeleti jog noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- előzetes letartóztatás noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- felügyelet noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- gyermekelhelyezés noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Indonesian
2 entries- hak asuh noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- kustodi noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- حِفاظَت noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Irish
1 entries- cumhdach noun (temporary possession)
Italian
2 entries- affidamento noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- custodia noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
Japanese
4 entries- 保管 noun (temporary possession)
- 拘留 noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- 預かり noun (temporary possession)
- 養育権 noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Korean
4 entries- 구류 noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- 보관 noun (temporary possession)
- 양육권 noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- 친권 noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Latin
2 entries- custodia noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- custōdia noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- popajź noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- forvaring noun (temporary possession)
- omsorgsrett noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- varetekt noun (temporary possession)
- varetekt noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- forvaring noun (temporary possession)
- omsorgsrett noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- varetekt noun (temporary possession)
- varetekt noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Persian
1 entries- حِفَاظَت noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Polish
2 entries- kustodia noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- opieka noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Portuguese
4 entries- custódia noun (temporary possession)
- custódia noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- custódia noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- guarda noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Romanian
4 entries- arest noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- custodie noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- păstrare noun (temporary possession)
- reținere noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Russian
4 entries- аре́ст noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- заключе́ние noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- кусто́дия noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- опе́ка noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Spanish
4 entries- custodia noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- custodia noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- patria potestad noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- tutela noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Swedish
2 entries- förvar noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- vårdnad noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Turkish
4 entries- alıkonma noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- emanet noun (temporary possession)
- gözaltı noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- gözaltına alınmak noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
Ukrainian
2 entries- кусто́дія noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- опі́ка noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Urdu
2 entries- حراست noun (state of being imprisoned or detained)
- حِفاظَت noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Zazaki
4 entries- emanet noun (temporary possession)
- kustudiya noun (Franciscan administrative unit)
- wesayet noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
- wesayet noun (legal right to take care of something or somebody)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
As for the papers, I have custody of them.
Source: tatoeba (46664)
He is in custody of his uncle.
Source: tatoeba (47528)
The police held him in custody.
Source: tatoeba (238151)
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