Thesaurus results for CUSTODIANS

custodians

noun

plural of custodian

as in keepers

a person who takes care of a property sometimes for an absent owner the custodian made his usual rounds of the building to make sure that everything was OK

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as in guardians

a person or group that watches over someone or something served as custodian of the prisoner until he could be turned over to federal authorities

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as in defenders

someone that protects we must regard ourselves as custodians of the Earth so that its natural resources may be enjoyed by many generations to come

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Recent Examples of custodians Those roles fall to separate custodians and depositories. —

Sharon Wu, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026 His members include special education and teacher aides, cafeteria workers, custodians, gardeners and bus drivers. —

Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026 And so the custodians became irate when photographs emerged of the actor Sarah Pidgeon, who plays Bessette in Murphy’s show, looking all wrong on set. —

Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026 More than 400 positions will be eliminated across multiple departments, including teachers, special education aides, counselors and custodians. —

Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026 Johnson’s administration has pinned the recent firings of nine custodians on the 2026 budget aldermen passed against his will. —

Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026 The first stop was Melin Tregwynt, a historic woolen mill founded in 1841 that is still one of the most influential custodians of the Welsh textile tradition. —

Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026 The board also approved cutting positions at multiple school sites, including assistant principals, high school teachers, special education specialists, custodians and secretaries, as well as the district’s only communications director. —

Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026 RIAs typically hold assets with large custodians like Schwab or Fidelity so there’s no commingling of funds and consumers have a large institution holding the actual funds. —

Ryan Daus, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024

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In addition to the view, the museum includes belongings, photos and memories of the lighthouse keepers and their families.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
Other record keepers are warming up to the private markets push, according to people familiar with their thinking.

— Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 21 Feb. 2026