tutelage
If you babysit and tutor younger children after school, the kids are under your tutelage. You are responsible for their care and education.
Tutelage can mean guardianship as well as teaching and sometimes it's difficult to tell which sense is meant. If an athlete is under the tutelage of his coach, the coach teaches him but is also responsible for the athlete's health and well-being. When the word describes a situation where one country or culture takes charge of another, it's more clear that management and guardianship are meant.
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attention and management implying responsibility for safetysynonyms: care, charge, guardianshiptypes:due care, ordinary care, reasonable carethe care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal dutyfoster caresupervised care for delinquent or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute homegreat caremore attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent personsprovidencethe guardianship and control exercised by a deityslight caresuch care as a careless or inattentive person would exercisetype of:protectionthe activity of protecting someone or something
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teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
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