trust

trust [trust]

n.

[ME < ON traust, trust, lit., firmness < IE * drou-sto- < base * deru-, tree > TREE, TRUE + sto-, standing < base * sta-, to STAND]

1.

a) firm belief or confidence in the honesty, integrity, reliability, justice, etc. of another person or thing; faith; reliance

b) the person or thing trusted

2. confident expectation, anticipation, or hope [to have trust in the future]

3.

a) the fact of having confidence placed in one

b) 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]

7.

a) 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.

b) CARTEL (sense 3): see also

8. MONOPOLY

9. Law

a) 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)

b) the confidence reposed in a trustee

c) the whole of the property held in trust

d) a trustee or group of trustees

e) the beneficiary's right to property held in trust

10. Archaic trustworthiness; loyalty

vi.

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

1. to have trust or faith; place reliance; be confident

2. to hope

3. to give business credit

vt.

1.

a) to believe in the honesty, integrity, justice, etc. of; have confidence in

b) 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

adj.

1. relating to a trust or trusts

2. held in trust

3. managing for an owner; acting as trustee

SYN.- BELIEF, MONOPOLY, RELY

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in trust

in the condition of being entrusted to another's care

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trust to

to rely on

trustable

adj.

truster

n.