trusteeship

IPA: trʌstˈiʃɪp

(law) Office or function of a trustee.
(international law) The administrative control of a territory granted to a country by the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations.

Examples of "trusteeship" in Sentences

This obligation was referred to as the trusteeship model.
They call it "trusteeship" - the trade union equivalent, according to Steve Early, of martial law.
This idea of political trusteeship is one of the relatively rare inventions in the political field.
To segregation he opposed the idea of trusteeship, not for the benefit of the trustee but for the benefit of the ward.
But a reluctance to jeopardize the idea of trusteeship has, I think, some effect on how the tribes view the Cobell litigation.
The red tape jungle was built into the Act to protect the Crown -- the people of Canada if you like, from the dangers inherent in trusteeship and to protect the Indians from being hoodwinked out of their land.
At a later phase, the British Empire decided, with the approval of the League of Nations, to postpone or freeze (but not to annul!) the mandate decision (that is, the trusteeship) in eastern Palestine (current-day Jordan) and work to implement the decision in western Palestine only – that is, to settle Jews there urgently and densely.