trust

Trust is confidence in the honesty or integrity of a person or thing.

(noun)

An example of trust is the belief that someone is being truthful.
An example of trust is the hope a parent has when they let their teenager borrow a car.

The definition of a trust is an arrangement made that gives control or ownership of a property to someone for the benefit of another person.

(noun)

An example of trust is a bank account that a person gets access to when they turn 21.

Trust is defined as to have confidence, faith or hope in someone or something.

(verb)

See trust in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

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
confident expectation, anticipation, or hope: to have trust in the future
1. the fact of having confidence placed in one
2. responsibility or obligation resulting from this
keeping; care; custody
something entrusted to one; charge, duty, etc.
confidence in a purchaser's intention or future ability to pay for goods or services delivered; credit: to sell on trust
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 )
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
Archaic trustworthiness; loyalty

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

intransitive verb

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

transitive verb

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
to commit (something) to a person's care
to put something confidently in the charge of: to trust a lawyer with one's case
to allow to do something without fear of the outcome: to trust a child to go to the store
to believe or suppose
to expect confidently; hope
to grant business credit to

adjective

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See trust in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
Custody; care.
Something committed into the care of another; charge.
a. The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one: violated a public trust.
b. One in which confidence is placed.
Reliance on something in the future; hope.
Reliance on the intention and ability of a purchaser to pay in the future; credit.
Law
a. A legal title to property held by one party for the benefit of another.
b. The confidence reposed in a trustee when giving the trustee legal title to property to administer for another, together with the trustee's obligation regarding that property and the beneficiary.
c. The property so held.
A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry.