entrust

[ en-truhst ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust: We entrusted him with our lives.

  2. to commit (something) in trust to; confide, as for care, use, or performance: to entrust a secret, money, powers, or work to another.

Origin of entrust

1
First recorded in 1595–1605; en-1 + trust
  • Sometimes in·trust [in-truhst] /ɪnˈtrʌst/ .

Other words from entrust

  • en·trust·ment, noun

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How to use entrust in a sentence

  • To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • Accordingly, when in 1812 he planned his Russian campaign, he entrusted Ney with the command of the third corps.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • Entrusted with sixty thousand men with orders to make a vast turning movement, his timidity spoiled the Emperor's careful plans.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • Macdonald was entrusted with this duty, and was further required to cover the concentration of Championnet's army.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • Doubtless I should have been entrusted with letters for your highness were not the city in some confusion owing to the fighting.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy

British Dictionary definitions for entrust

entrust

intrust

/ (ɪnˈtrʌst) /


verb(tr)
  1. (usually foll by with) to invest or charge (with a duty, responsibility, etc)

  2. (often foll by to) to put into the care or protection of someone

usage For entrust

It is usually considered incorrect to talk about entrusting someone to do something: the army cannot be trusted (not entrusted) to carry out orders

Derived forms of entrust

  • entrustment or intrustment, noun

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