noun

1. 1. firm belief or confidence in the honesty, integrity, reliability, justice, etc. of another person or thing; faith; reliance
   2. the person or thing trusted
2. confident expectation, anticipation, or hope to have trust in the future
3. 1. the fact of having confidence placed in one
   2. responsibility or obligation resulting from this
4. keeping; care; custody
5. something entrusted to one; charge, duty, etc.
6. confidence in a purchaser's intention or future ability to pay for goods or services delivered; credit to sell on trust
7. 1. an industrial or business combination, now illegal in the U.S., in which management and control of the member corporations are vested in a single board of trustees, who are thus able to control a market, absorb or eliminate competition, fix prices, etc.
   2. cartel (sense )
8. Law
   1. an arrangement by which property is put under the ownership and control of a person (trustee) who bears the responsibility of administering it for the benefit of another (beneficiary)
   2. the confidence reposed in a trustee
   3. the whole of the property held in trust
   4. a trustee or group of trustees
   5. the beneficiary's right to property held in trust
9. Archaic trustworthiness; loyalty

Etymology: ME < ON traust, trust, lit., firmness < IE *drou-sto- < base *deru-, tree > tree, true + sto-, standing < base *sta-, to stand

intransitive verb

1. to have trust or faith; place reliance; be confident
2. to hope
3. to give business credit

Etymology: ME trusten, altered (based on the n.) < ON treysta, to trust, confide < base of traust

transitive verb

1. 1. to believe in the honesty, integrity, justice, etc. of; have confidence in
   2. to rely or depend on trust them to be on time
2. to commit (something) to a person's care
3. to put something confidently in the charge of to trust a lawyer with one's case
4. to allow to do something without fear of the outcome to trust a child to go to the store
5. to believe or suppose
6. to expect confidently; hope
7. to grant business credit to

adjective

1. relating to a trust or trusts
2. held in trust
3. managing for an owner; acting as trustee