Search Result for "in loco parentis":
Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (1)

1. in place of the parents;
- Example: "we had to punish this child in loco parentis"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

in loco parentis
    adv 1: in place of the parents; "we had to punish this child in
           loco parentis"


Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

IN LOCO PARENTIS. In the place of a parent; as, the master stands towards
his apprentice in loco parentis.