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Conservator   /kənsˈərvətər/   Listen
Conservator

noun
1.
The custodian of a collection (as a museum or library).  Synonym: curator.
2.
Someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person.



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conservator-ward relation


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"Conservator" Quotes from Famous Books



... supremacy—the possessive and the creative. Both are of immediate economic importance, and the triumph of the one usually means the subordination of the other. The instincts which urge in the direction of acquisition and accumulation tend to make the man a conservator. Once let him possess an abundance of the world's goods and his chief object is to hold what he has gained. The instincts which urge toward construction and creation tend to make man an innovator, initiator, an improver. The side of man's nature that urges ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing


Words linked to "Conservator" :   custodian, steward, fiduciary, keeper, conservator-ward relation


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