2. janitor, concierge, clean-up man, maintenance man, handyman.
3. steward, administrator, curator, manager, overseer, superintendent, Inf. super, supervisor; foreman, director, warden, boss, man in charge. custody, n. 1. keeping, care, guardianship, ward, wardship, protection, Law. trusteeship; keep, safekeeping, safeguard; tutelage, guidance, chaperonage; supervision, superintendence, surveillance, direction, control.
2. holding, possession, retention, Law. seizin.
3. imprisonment, confinement, detention, incarceration, durance; constraint, restraint, duress, fetters. custom, n. 1. practice, way, fashion, procedure, policy, rule, use; habit, convention, wont, praxis, usage, observance, habitude, second nature; consuetude, tradition, Law. presciption, routing, course; conventionality, matter of course, conventionalism, formality, form.
2. tax, toll, duty, levy, impost; rate, tariff, excise, assessment, exaction, customary, adj. accustomed, habitual, set, fixed, rooted, established, traditional, consuetudinary, confirmed; usual, wonted, regular, daily, routine, normal, natural; ordinary, conventional, everyday, commonplace; general, prevailing, prevalent, common, frequent; well-known, popular, favorite, household; stock, well-worn, trite, hackneyed, cliche. customer, n. patron, client, (collectively) clientele; buyer, Law. emptor, Law. vendee; purchaser, shopper, marketer, patronizer. cut, v. 1. gash, slash, lance, slit, slice; notch, ridge, Cookery, score; sever, abscind, split, carve, cleave, sunder; rend, rive, tear, rip; divide, section, apportion; dissect, cut apart, anatomize, disjoint, quarter; disjoin, disunite, dismember.
2. wound, hurt, pain, grieve, aggrieve, distress, lacerate; afflict, trouble, injure, discomfort; insult, slight, affront, offend; touch, move, affect.
3. shun, scorn, snub, slight, spurn, rebuff; ignore, turn one's back on, freeze [s.o.] out, take no note of, cold-shoulder, look right through [s.o.].
4. strike, crack, whip, lash, scourge, flog, flagellate; birch, switch, stripe; mutilate, mangle.
5. hew, saw down, fell; chop, hack, splinter; reap, mow, harvest, gather; lop off, truncate, amputate, detach, remove; trim, clip, dock, snip, nip, snap; shear, crop, (of the hair) bob; pare, shave, prune.
6. intersect, decussate, cross, bisect.
7. abridge, shorten, abbreviate, condense; contract, epitomize, summarize, abstract; curtail, retrench, cut back; edit, eliminate; reduce, diminish, lower, abate, mitigate, cut down on, ease up on.
8. dissolve, dilute, thin, water or water down; adulterate, degrade, debase, pollute; vitiate, weaken, doctor.
9. sculpture, sculpt, sculp, chisel; carve, whittle, incise, engrave; shape, form, fashion, mold. 10. excavate, hollow out, scoop out, gouge; dig, burrow, tunnel, Archaic, delve. 11. (usu. of engines) stop, halt, turn off, switch off; Informal, discontinue, desist, cease, SI. knock off, SI. cut out. 12. record, make a recording or record of, put on disc; tape, taperecord, put on tape; film, photograph. 13. (usu. with across) pass, go, come, roam, ramble, trek; cross over, travel over, traverse. 14. swerve, veer, tack, yaw, turn, change direction or course, Naut. jibe.