legal guardian

1. 1.

   a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit

   Synonymstrustee

   Broaderfiduciary

   law

Questions about legal guardian

What does legal guardian mean?

legal guardian means "a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit".

What is another word for legal guardian?

Close synonyms include trustee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal guardian a common word?

legal guardian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.