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trust (trust)

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
  2. 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
  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
    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. 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

Related Forms:

trust Idioms

in trust

in the condition of being entrusted to another's care

trust to

to rely on

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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trust Synonyms

trust

n.

  1. Reliance

    confidence, dependence, belief, credence; see faith 1.

  2. A trusted person

    mainstay, guarantee, anchor, confidant, security, support, assurance, benefactor, patron, guardian, protector, savior, good angel*.

  3. Responsibility

    guardianship, account, duty, liability, moment.

  4. A large company

    corporation, monopoly, cartel, holding company, conglomerate, combination, combine; see also business 4, organization 3. See syn. study at belief, monopoly.

in trust

in escrow, on deposit, in the custody of, deposited, held, bonded, in the care of, in the keeping of, in account with, given as surety; see also retained 1.


trust

v.

  1. To believe in

    have faith in, believe in, rely on, depend on, depend upon, count on, bank on*, have confidence in, place confidence in, confide in*, swear by*, esteem*, expect help from, presume upon, lean on, turn to*, fall back on*, have no doubt, rest assured, be sure about, have no reservations, put faith in, give credence to, look to, be persuaded by, be convinced, put great stock in*, set great store by*, take at one's word*, eat up*; see also believe 1, count on.

    Antonyms doubt*, mistrust*, disbelieve. *

  2. To hope

    presume, take, imagine; see assume 1, hope.

  3. To place in the protection of another

    lend, put in safekeeping, entrust, trust to, commit, consign, commission, assign, store with, transfer, give over, place in trust of, make someone a trustee of, make someone guardian of.

  4. To give credit to

    advance, lend, loan, let out, grant, confer, let, patronize, aid, give financial aid to.

    Antonyms borrow*, raise money, pawn.

to trust is to have complete faith or assurance that one will not be let down by another to trust in God; to or upon51> a person or thing is to have confidence, usually on the basis of past experience, that what is expected will be done she can be relied on to keep the secret; to or upon51> is to place reliance on a person or thing, esp. for support or aid a museum that depends on corporate contributions; to count on something is to consider it in one's calculations as certain they counted on my going; to bank on, a colloquial term, is to have confidence like that of one who is willing to risk money on something don't bank on their help


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trust Usage Examples

Object

  • lieutenant: Hornigold soon became a full pirate, with Teach as one of his most trusted lieutenants.

Converse of object

  • rebuild: However, working with our clients there is also a crucial need to rebuild trusts, and to maintain clear boundaries to the relationship.

Adjective modifier

  • charitable: Or perhaps you want to set up a charitable trust or donate a minibus?

Modifies a noun

  • fund: The trust fund consists of £ 120 in the savings bank.

Noun used with modifier

  • NHS: The National Health Service was broken up into NHS Trusts in the early 1990s.
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trust quotes

Trust him as much as you would a rattlesnake with a silencer on its rattle.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

-Bible (Old Testament)

The children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

-Bible (Old Testament)

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