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LEGAL GUARDIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does legal guardian mean?
• LEGAL GUARDIAN (noun)
The noun LEGAL GUARDIAN has 1 sense:
1. a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit
Familiarity information: LEGAL GUARDIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
legal guardian; trustee
Hypernyms ("legal guardian" is a kind of...):
fiduciary (a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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