caretakership
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]caretakership (plural caretakerships)
- 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.
- 1887, Timothy Michael Healy, Maurice Healy, Key to the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, page 66:
- 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.
- 2024 March 24, Harlan Ellison, Greates Hits, Union Square & Co:
- 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.