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trustable

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

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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