caretakership

plural caretakerships

1. The temporary role or responsibility of taking care of something or someone. Examples include maintaining and overseeing the upkeep of a building, managing the day-to-day operations of an organization or providing personal care and support to someone who needs assistance.

   The right to caretakership of lunatics and (remarkably) spendthrifts vested originally in their nearest agnate relative, though later a caretaker could be appointed by the authorities.

   1967, John Anthony Crook, Law and Life of Rome, 90 B.C. - 212 A.D., Cornell University Press, page 118

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   Such a transaction in effect creates a temporary letting of the lands, terminable with the caretakership; the rent in respect of which consists merely of the tenant's services as caretaker.

   1887, Timothy Michael Healy, Maurice Healy, Key to the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, page 66

   So Dira’s people gave over jurisdiction to that certain world, and went away, leaving Dira with only the Deathbird, a special caretakership the adjudicators had wowven into their judgement.

   2024 March 24, Harlan Ellison, Greates Hits, Union Square & Co