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trust

/trʊst/
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noun

  • Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

    "He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back."

  • Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
  • Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

    "I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust."

  • That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
  • That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
  • Trustworthiness, reliability.
  • The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  • The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.

    "I put the house into my sister's trust."

  • An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.
  • 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.
  • Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

verb

  • To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.

    "We cannot trust anyone who deceives us."

  • To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  • To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)

    "I trust you have cleaned your room?"

  • To show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
  • To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
  • To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

    "Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods."

  • (followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).

    "Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details."

  • To risk; to venture confidently.
  • To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  • To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

adjective

  • Secure, safe.
  • Faithful, dependable.
  • Of or relating to a trust.

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