1.
Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child’s mother or father when they get divorced.
I’m going to go to court to get ~ of the children...
Child ~ is normally granted to the mother.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n
2.
Someone who is in ~ or has been taken into ~ has been arrested and is being kept in prison until they can be tried in a court.
Three people appeared in court and two of them were remanded in ~...
She was taken into ~ later that day.
PHRASE: PHR after v
3.
If someone is being held in a particular type of ~, they are being kept in a place that is similar to a prison.
Barrett was taken into protective ~.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp