trust meaning
EN[tɹʌst] [-ʌst]US
WTrust
- Trust may refer to:
- Trust (social sciences), Reliance and entity
- Misplaced trust
- NounPLtrusts
- 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.
- (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- (law) 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.
- (law) 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.
- (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- VerbSGtrustsPRtrustingPT, PPtrusted
- (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
- We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
- In God We Trust - written on denominations of US currency
- (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object).
- (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
- (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
- (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
- (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
- (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
- AdjectiveCOMmore trustSUPmost trust
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.
- She has a way with animals, and they seem instinctively to trust her.
- Stasis, by itself, is an alright card... decent for stalling in a monoblue deck (just trust me on this one), and it gives a really good ability, shutting down all untapping.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of trust in English Dictionary
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- en trusted
- en trusting
- en trustworthy
- en trusty
- en trustee
Source: Wiktionary