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Definition of 'Trust'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) trust
reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.

2.  trust
confident expectation of something; hope.

3.  trust
confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit:
to sell merchandise on trust.

4.  trust
one upon which a person relies:
God is my trust.

5.  trust
the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.

6.  trust
the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed:
a position of trust.

7.  trust
charge, custody, or care:
leaving valuables in someone's trust.

8.  trust
something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping; charge.

9.  trust
a fiduciary relationship in which a trustee holds title to property for the beneficiary.

10.  trust
the property so held.

11.  trust
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 minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc.

12.  trust
any large corporation or combination having monopolistic or semimonopolistic control over the production of a commodity or service.

13.  trust
Archaic. reliability.

14. (v.t.) trust
to have trust or confidence in; rely or depend on.

15.  trust
to believe.

16.  trust
to expect confidently; hope:
I trust that the job will soon be finished.

17.  trust
to commit or consign with trust or confidence.

18.  trust
to permit to stay or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences:
He doesn't trust them out of his sight.

19.  trust
to invest with a trust; entrust with something.

20.  trust
to give credit to (a person) for goods, services, etc., supplied.

21. (v.i.) trust
to place confidence; rely (usu. fol. by in or to):
trusting to luck.

22.  trust
to have confidence; hope.

23.  trust
to sell merchandise on credit.

24.  trust
in trust, in the care or guardianship of another, esp. a trustee.

Etymology: (1175–1225; ME, ult. < ON traust trust, c. OHG trōst consolation, Go

Definition of 'Trust'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) trust
something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
"he is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father"

2. (noun) reliance, trust
certainty based on past experience
"he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"; "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun"

3. (noun) trust, trustingness, trustfulness
the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others
"the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity"

4. (noun) trust, corporate trust, combine, cartel
a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
"they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly"

5. (noun) faith, trust
complete confidence in a person or plan etc
"he cherished the faith of a good woman"; "the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust"

6. (verb) confidence, trust
a trustful relationship
"he took me into his confidence"; "he betrayed their trust"

7. (verb) trust, swear, rely, bank
have confidence or faith in
"We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

8. (verb) trust
allow without fear

9. (verb) believe, trust
be confident about something
"I believe that he will come back from the war"

10. (verb) hope, trust, desire
expect and wish
"I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"

11. (verb) entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit
confer a trust upon
"The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"

12. (verb) trust
extend credit to
"don't trust my ex-wife; I won't pay her debts anymore"

Definition of 'Trust'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) trust
to feel that sb is good, honest, and reliable
I trust him completely.; We trust our employees to get the job done.; She trusts him with her kids.

2.  trust
to believe that sth is true or reliable
We have to trust what they tell us.; I trust that she's telling me the truth.; Do you think we can trust these statistics?

3. (noun) trust
the feeling that sb or sth is good, honest, and reliable
We have trust in the teachers.; You'll have to earn your employees' trust.

4.  trust
put your trust in
to trust
We put too much trust in technology.

5.  trust
a financial arrangement in which sb manages money for sb else, or the money that is managed
to set up a trust for sb; assets held in trust

Definition of 'Trust'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Trust
held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney

2. (noun) Trust
assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance

3. (noun) Trust
credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust

4. (noun) Trust
assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief

5. (noun) Trust
that which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit

6. (noun) Trust
the condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office

7. (noun) Trust
that upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope

8. (noun) 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 confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust

9. (noun) Trust
an organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust

10. (noun) Trust
to place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us

11. (noun) Trust
to give credence to; to believe; to credit

12. (noun) Trust
to hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object

13. (noun) Trust
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something

14. (noun) Trust
to commit, as to one's care; to intrust

15. (noun) Trust
to give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods

16. (noun) Trust
to risk; to venture confidently

17. (verb) Trust
to have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide

18. (verb) Trust
to be confident, as of something future; to hope

19. (verb) Trust
to sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit

Definition of 'Trust'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. Trust
Confidence in or reliance on a person or thing.

Translation of 'Trust'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to have confidence or faith; to believe She trusted (in) him.
Afrikaans: vertrou	Arabic: يَثِقُ في	Bulgarian: доверявам се
Brazilian: confiar	Czech: důvěřovat	German: vertrauen
Danish: have tillid til; stole på	Greek: εμπιστεύομαι	Spanish: confiar (en)
Estonian: uskuma	Farsi: اعتماد کردن	Finnish: luottaa
French: avoir confiance (en)	Hebrew: לִבטוֹחַ	Hindi: भरोसा करना
Croatian: vjerovati, imati povjeren	Hungarian: megbízik (vkiben v. vmibe	Indonesian: mempercayai
Icelandic: treysta	Italian: avere fiducia	Japanese: 信頼する
Korean: 신뢰하다	Lithuanian: tikėti	Latvian: ticēt
Malay: mempercayai	Dutch: vertrouwen	Norwegian: stole/lite på
Polish: zaufać	Persian: اعتماد کردن	Pashto: اعتماد کول
Portuguese: confiar	Romanian: a aveaîncredere (în), a	Russian: доверять; верить
Slovak: dôverovať, veriť	Slovenian: zaupati	Serbian: verovati
Swedish: lita på, ha förtroende fö	Thai: วางใจ	Turkish: güvenmek, inanmak
Taiwanese: 信任	Ukrainian: довіряти(ся); покладатися	Urdu: بھروسہ کرنا
Vietnamese: tin tưởng	Chinese: 信任
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