Synonyms:
guardianship, keeping, safekeeping
Meaning: the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping"
Synonyms:
care, charge, tutelage, guardianship
Meaning: attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
Usage examples
All his best years of active life had been spent in the care and guardianship of trees.
The plate and the more valuable pictures found a safer home in London, but the bulk of the things went country-ways, and were entrusted to the guardianship of Miss Avery.
The Roman women, as well as the Grecian, were under perpetual guardianship; and were not at any age, nor in any condition, ever trusted with the management of their own fortunes.
Tools, metal material, leather, straps and dozens of items are administered with the same spirit of jealous guardianship by Day, Lashly, Oates and Meares, while our main storekeeper Bowers even affects to bemoan imaginary shortages.
Mr. Evelyn left to me a legacy of a thousand pounds, and the sole guardianship of his daughter's person till her eighteenth year; conjuring me, in the most affecting terms, to take the charge of her education till she was able to act with propriety for herself; but, in regard to fortune, he left her wholly dependent on her mother, to whose tenderness he earnestly recommended her.