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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.
EXPANDthe 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.
COLLAPSEArchaic. 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)
Verb phrase16.
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.
EXPANDto permit to remain or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences: He does not trust his children out of his sight.
23.
Idiomtrust to, to rely on; trust: Never trust to luck!
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
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
EXPANDCan be confused: board, bored, committee, council, panel, trust (see synonym note 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.
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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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"
EXPAND(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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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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