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 credit to the trust fund is just a bookkeeping entry.
  • Donors include the Pelorus Trust and the Endeavour Community Trust.
  • The term indicates the trust and faith of people in God, who is immutable.

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