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custody
1. The legal right and responsibility for raising a child and personally supervising the child's upbringing; especially, a person's right to keep the child in his or her home.
2. Detention by the police or other authorities; arrested and in custody: "The police have taken the man into custody."
3. The state of being held in another person's care or protection.
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