trust

[truhst]
noun
1.
reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
2.
confident expectation of something; hope.
3.
confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.
4.
a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.
5.
the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.
6.
the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed: a position of trust.
7.
charge, custody, or care: to leave valuables in someone's trust.
8.
something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping, as an office, duty, or the like; responsibility; charge.
9.
Law.
a.
a fiduciary relationship in which one person (the trustee) holds the title to property (the trust estate or trust property) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary).
b.
the property or funds so held.
10.
Commerce.
a.
an illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc.
b.
any large industrial or commercial corporation or combination having a monopolistic or semimonopolistic control over the production of some commodity or service.
11.
Archaic. reliability.
adjective
12.
Law. of or pertaining to trusts or a trust.
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verb (used without object)
13.
to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something (usually followed by in or to ): to trust in another's honesty; trusting to luck.
14.
to have confidence; hope: Things work out if one only trusts.
15.
to sell merchandise on credit.
verb (used with object)
16.
to have trust or confidence in; rely or depend on.
17.
to believe.
18.
to expect confidently; hope (usually followed by a clause or infinitive as object): trusting the job would soon be finished; trusting to find oil on the land.
19.
to commit or consign with trust or confidence.
20.
to permit to remain or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences: He does not trust his children out of his sight.
21.
to invest with a trust; entrust with something.
22.
to give credit to (a person) for goods, services, etc., supplied: Will you trust us till payday?
Verb phrases
23.
trust to, to rely on; trust: Never trust to luck!
Idioms
24.
in trust, in the position of being left in the care or guardianship of another: She left money to her uncle to keep in trust for her children.
Origin:
1175–1225; (noun) Middle English < Old Norse traust trust (cognate with German Trost comfort); (v.) Middle English trusten < Old Norse treysta, derivative of traust

Related forms
trust·a·ble, adjective
trust·a·bil·i·ty, noun
trust·er, noun
non·trust, noun
o·ver·trust, verb
self-trust, noun
un·trust·a·ble, adjective
un·trust·ed, adjective
well-trust·ed, adjective

Can be confused: board, bored, committee, council, panel, trust (see synonym study at the current entry).

Synonyms
1. certainty, belief, faith. Trust, assurance, confidence imply a feeling of security. Trust implies instinctive unquestioning belief in and reliance upon something: to have trust in one's parents. Confidence implies conscious trust because of good reasons, definite evidence, or past experience: to have confidence in the outcome of events. Assurance implies absolute confidence and certainty: to feel an assurance of victory. 8. commitment, commission. 17. credit. 19. entrust.
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trust (trʌst) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  reliance on and confidence in the truth, worth, reliability, etc, of a person or thing; faithRelated: fiducial
2.  a group of commercial enterprises combined to monopolize and control the market for any commodity: illegal in the US
3.  the obligation of someone in a responsible position: a position of trust
4.  custody, charge, or care: a child placed in my trust
5.  a person or thing in which confidence or faith is placed
6.  commercial credit
7.  a.  an arrangement whereby a person to whom the legal title to property is conveyed (the trustee) holds such property for the benefit of those entitled to the beneficial interest
 b.  property that is the subject of such an arrangement
 c.  the confidence put in the trusteeRelated: fiduciary
8.  (in the British National Health Service) a self-governing hospital, group of hospitals, or other body providing health-care services, which operates as an independent commercial unit within the NHS
9.  trust company See trust account
10.  (modifier) of or relating to a trust or trusts: trust property
 
—vb (when tr, may take an infinitive; when intr, often foll by in or to)
11.  (tr; may take a clause as object) to expect, hope, or suppose: I trust that you are well
12.  to place confidence in (someone to do something); have faith (in); rely (upon): I trust him to tell her
13.  (tr) to consign for care: the child was trusted to my care
14.  (tr) to allow (someone to do something) with confidence in his or her good sense or honesty: I trust my daughter to go
15.  (tr) to extend business credit to
 
Related: fiducial, fiduciary
 
[C13: from Old Norse traust; related to Old High German trost solace]
 
'trustable
 
—adj
 
trusta'bility
 
—n
 
'truster
 
—n

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Word Origin & History

trust
c.1200, from O.N. traust "help, confidence," from P.Gmc. *traust- (cf. O.Fris. trast, Du. troost "comfort, consolation," O.H.G. trost "trust, fidelity," Ger. Trost "comfort, consolation," Goth. trausti "agreement, alliance"). Related to O.E. treowian "to believe, trust," and treowe "faithful, trusty"
(see true). Meaning "businesses organized to reduce competition" is recorded from 1877. The verb (early 13c.) is from O.N. treysta "to trust." Trust-buster is recorded from 1903. Trustee in the sense of "person who is responsible for the property of another" is attested from 1650s. Trustworthy is first attested 1808.
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Cultural Dictionary

trust definition


A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or industry. Trusts are generally prohibited or restricted by antitrust legislation. (Compare monopoly.)

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Idioms & Phrases

trust

see brain trust; in trust.

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Example sentences
Success with one can build trust and create confidence needed for progress on
  the others.
He espouses a tremendously attractive belief that good industrial design wins
  customers' trust by disappearing.
At stake is the control of millions of digitized works held by the trust and
  the universities.
As the experiment progressed, my trust in the robot grew and my tension waned.
Idioms & Phrases
brain trust
in trust
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