Meanings
nounconservatorship (countable and uncountable, plural conservatorships)
plural conservatorships
- countableuncountablelawThe legal status of a conservator, similar to guardianship or trusteeship.
- countableuncountablelawThe state of being under the control of a conservator.
However, the last few years of his life were primarily defined by his troubled family life—he is estranged from many of his relatives, at one point alleging that they tried to place him under a conservatorship[…]
2022 November 6, Emma Garland, “Aaron Carter was the millennium’s bubblegum bad boy – and the victim of a rapacious music industry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
- Englishconservator
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishconservatorship
From conservator + -ship.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Norwegian Bokmål formynderskap, verge
- formynderskaplegal status of a conservator
- vergelegal status of a conservator
- vergemållegal status of a conservator
Portuguese tutela
- tutelalegal status of a conservator
Cite this entry
APA
conservatorship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conservatorship
MLA
“conservatorship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conservatorship. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “conservatorship,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conservatorship.
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