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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
| Synonyms: | aegis, auspices, care, conservation, custodianship, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, ward, wardship, watch |
| Main Entry: | captivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical detention by force |
| Synonyms: | bondage, committal, confinement, constraint, custody, durance, duress, enslavement, enthrallment, entombment, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, jail, limbo, restraint, serfdom, servitude, slavery, subjection, thralldom, vassalage |
| Antonyms: | freedom, independence, liberty, license |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | care, commitment, committal, concern, custody, deadweight, duty, millstone, must, need, obligation, office, onus, ought, responsibility, right, safekeeping, task, tax, trust, ward, weight |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervisory responsibility |
| Synonyms: | care, conduct, custody, handling, intendance, management, oversight, running, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, ward |
| Main Entry: | clutches |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal power |
| Synonyms: | claws, control, custody, grasp, grip, hands, keeping, possession, sway |
| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imprisonment; restriction |
| Synonyms: | bonds, bounding, bounds, check, circumscription, coercion, constrainment, constraint, control, cramp, curb, custody, delimitation, detention, immuration, incarceration, internment, jail, keeping, limitation, repression, safekeeping, trammels |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
| Synonyms: | attention, care, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, control, custody, directing, economy, governing, guardianship, guarding, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, preserval, preserving, protecting, protection, safeguarding, safekeeping, salvation, saving, stewardship, storage, supervising, supervision, sustentation, upkeep |
| Antonyms: | destruction, neglect, spending, squandering, waste |
| Main Entry: | detention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confinement, imprisonment |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, arrest, arrestation, bust, custody, delay, detainment, hindrance, holding back, holding pen, immurement, impediment, incarceration, internment, keeping in, nab, pen*, pickup, pinch*, quarantine, restraint, retention, time up the river, withholding |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oversight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | care, supervision |
| Synonyms: | administration, aegis, charge, check, control, custody, direction, guard, guardianship, handling, inspection, intendance, keep, keeping, maintenance, management, superintendence, surveillance, tutelage |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, neglect |
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