trust
IPA: trˈʌst
noun
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- (trust law) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
- A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
verb
- (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
- (intransitive, with in) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
- (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
- (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
adjective
- (obsolete) Secure, safe.
- (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
- (law) of or relating to a trust.
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Examples of "trust" in Sentences
- The trusts expired in the 1980s.
- Attain the trust of the community.
- The difference is the degree of trust.
- Both are essentially revocable trusts.
- At the end of the day trust is the key.
- As a result, they are the most trusted ones.
- The trusting woman believes her and returns to Canada.
- The old Leftist brain trust is either dead or Neo-con.
- The credit to the trust fund is just a bookkeeping entry.
- A key part of that Houston brain trust is the GM himself,
- Do not mention the word trust to me again or I will beat you!
- Donors include the Pelorus Trust and the Endeavour Community Trust.
- The term indicates the trust and faith of people in God, who is immutable.
- Donald Cressey penned the term "trust violator" in his research on the behavior and motivation of embezzlers.
- This doesn't mean the trust is all gone, but it will have a damaging effect on your credibility and your dependability.
- The Mich Dem party brain trust is sure that the DNC will seat the delegates, in spite of the transgression of party rules.
- The term trust has been cited in history as far back as the 13 th century Middle English, but it has etymological origins even earlier with regard to expressions of loyalty and faithfulness (Mollering, Bachmann, & Lee, 2004).
- The term trust agent,'' the authors write, refers to company insiders who are not only fluent in the language of technology, but also adept at using social media to build credibility with the online community, where a hard-sell, product-oriented approach is often counterproductive.
- The fathers of the English _church_, forbade selling on trust at a higher price than for ready money, which was the same thing in effect as to _forbid trust_; and this was doubtless one of the great objects those wise and pious men had in view; for they were fathers in legislation and morals, as well as in religion.
- The fathers of the Church (I mean the ancient ones), and also the canons of the Church, forbade selling on trust at a higher price than for ready money, which was in effect to forbid _trust_; and this, doubtless, was one of the great objects which those wise and pious men had in view; for they were fathers in legislation and morals as well as in religion.
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