Another word for warden
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Noun
A guard or keeper of a prison
- One whose responsibility is keeping a jail.
- A person in charge of a jail or of prisoners
- A person who guards an entrance
- A staff or rod formerly carried by a king, commander, etc. as a mark of authority, and used to signal his wishes
- (Chiefly Brit.) A prison guard or officer
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Another word for warden
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- (Sports) A referee or umpire.
- One who holds an office or position, especially one who acts in a subordinate capacity for an institution such as a corporation or governmental agency.
- A person holding office, esp. public office
- A person appointed to a position of authority in the armed forces; specif., commissioned officer
- A person licensed in the merchant marine as master, mate, chief engineer, or assistant engineer.
- Anyone elected or appointed to an office or position of authority in a government, business, institution, society, etc.
- One who watches over and directs the work of others, especially laborers.
- A supervisor or superintendent.
- A janitor or custodian in a building, especially in an apartment house.
- A person responsible for the maintenance of a building; custodian
- A person in charge of a department, institution, etc.; director; supervisor
- One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
- A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- A member of a board chosen to direct the affairs of a corporation or institution
- A person legally placed in charge of the affairs of a minor or of a person of unsound mind
- (Law) One who is legally responsible for the care and management of the person or property of an incompetent or minor.
- (Newspapers) A British daily national newspaper.
- A teacher who gives individual instruction to a student; private teacher
- A graduate, usually a fellow, responsible for the supervision of an undergraduate at some British universities.
- In English universities, a college official in charge of the studies of an undergraduate
- One that has the charge or care of something:
- An attendant, a guard, or a warden.
- A guardian or protector
- A man who is a cleric.
- A member of a church, esp. an active member
- A person (originally a man) of authority in a religious organization; a cleric.
- A person in charge of a jail or of prisoners
- One whose responsibility is keeping a jail.
- A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.
- The act or duty of guarding; careful watch; wariness; defense; protection
- A special unit of troops assigned to the British royal household
- A person who protects, keeps watch, or acts as a sentinel:
- The elected head of any state of the U.S.
- (Brit., Informal) A person having authority; esp., one's father or employer
- An official appointed to govern a colony or territory.
- A personification of time as an old man, usually carrying an hourglass.
- A person in training to be a minister
- A lay assistant to a Protestant minister.
- An officer who helps the minister in matters not having to do with worship
- A nobleman of the highest hereditary rank below that of prince
- A sovereign prince who rules an independent duchy in some European countries.
- The title of a duke.
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