custodial
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- s providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
daycare that is educational and not just custodial
- They had squandered it, Americans thought, had thrown it away in the messy interval between the assassination of John Kennedy and the wan custodial regime of George Bush.
- Yet exporting the custodial techniques of Sing Sing to the schools hardly creates authentic discipline, much less an atmosphere conducive to learning.
- The clincher might be that without custodial security, there would be no inmates left for the treatment staff to work on.