0 a person or organization whose job is to keep works of art, important buildings, or valuable cultural objects in good condition:
1 a person or an organization that has been legally chosen to control the finances or property of another person, company, or organization:
A judge appointed a professional conservator to look after the young man's interests.
Top executives are being replaced and the companies will be put under the supervision of conservators.
2 a person who is chosen by a law court to look after the property of a person who is not able to do this for him- or herself, for example, because of illness:
Helena is a rare-book conservator.
A workshop was presented by a conservator from the famed Winterthur Museum.
At the Museo Stradivariano we met Andrea Mosconi, conservator of the city's violin collection.
The mother and sister say that the law leaves mentally disabled people at the mercy of conservators.
The bill would allow unmarried partners to make medical treatment decisions for one another and to act as a conservator for their partner.
The two companies will now be overseen by a conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
As a result, many present-day archaeologists and conservators of antiquities experience tourism as a blessing for their profession.
The curators, conservators and research staff who gave their time to locate vases as well as corresponding paperwork were instrumental.
