trust

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

intransitive verb

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

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