Fiduciary Definition

fĭ-do͝oshē-ĕrē, -shə-rē, -dyo͝o-, fī-
fiduciaries
adjective
Of or relating to a duty of acting in good faith with regard to the interests of another.
A company's fiduciary responsibility to investors.
American Heritage
Designating or of a person who holds something in trust for another; of a trustee or trusteeship.
A fiduciary guardian for a minor child.
Webster's New World
Held in trust.
Fiduciary property.
Webster's New World
Valuable only because of public confidence and support.
Webster's New World
Of or consisting of fiat money.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
fiduciaries
One, such as an agent of a principal or a company director, who has a duty of acting in good faith with regard to the interests of another.
American Heritage

Trustee.

Webster's New World
An individual owing another a legal duty of care and good faith in the management of a business, money, or property; for example, a corporate officer or the executor of a will.
Webster's New World Law

Adj. Descriptive of a relationship that confers special higher responsibilities. See fiduciary relationship.

Webster's New World Law

(law) One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.

Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Fiduciary

Noun

Singular:
fiduciary
Plural:
fiduciaries

Origin of Fiduciary

  • From Latin fīdūciārius (“held in trust”), from fidūcia (“trust”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin fīdūciārius from fīdūcia trust fiducial

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fiduciary Sentence Examples

  • In addition, SOX requires employees and professional advisors to disclose potential wrongdoing or breaches of fiduciary duty to a corporation's senior management.

  • The directors are subject to the general fiduciary duty to act bona fide for the benefit of the company as a whole.

  • In addition, SOX requires employees and professional advisors to disclose potential wrongdoing or breaches of fiduciary duty to a corporation 's senior management.

  • The homestead of a householder or head of a family to the value of $2000 and properly recorded is exempt from levy, seizure, garnishment or forced sale, except for purchase money, for services of a labouring person or mechanic, for liabilities incurred by a public officer, fiduciary or attorney for money collected, for taxes, for rent or for legal fees of a public officer.

  • Legal tender were the "Ostmark" (originally introduced by the German Military Administration of the Army of Occupation, "Militdrisches Verwaltungsgebiet Ober-Ost"), which in Lithuania proper ranked pari passu with the German "Reichsmark," and other German fiduciary currency to a total not less than one milliard marks.

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