📚 Custody, noun. 🔉 /ˈkʌstədi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • Law): Responsibility for the care, maintenance, and upbringing of a child or children. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was trying to get custody of their child. 2. In a divorce, fathers control custody of sons over the age of two and daughters over the age of seven. 3. Both the applicant and the respondent were seeking sole custody of the children. 4. In Burns, the mother had full custody of two children and the parents shared custody of a third child. 5. The court then has a difficult task in determining which parent should have custody of Michael. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic