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Definition trust

Etymology

From Middle English truste (“trust, protection”), from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traust?, from Proto-Indo-European *drowsdom, from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst, tröst (“trust”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (trausti, “alliance, pact”). More at true, tree.

Noun

trust (countable and uncountable, plural trusts)

  1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
  2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
  3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
  4. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
  5. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
  6. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
  7. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  8. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
  9. (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.
  10. 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.
  11. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

Verb

trust (third-person singular simple present trusts, present participle trusting, simple past and past participle trusted)

  1. (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
  2. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  3. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
  4. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
  5. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
  6. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
  7. (intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
  8. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
  9. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  10. (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
  11. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Adjective

trust (comparative more trust, superlative most trust)

  1. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
  2. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
  3. (law) of or relating to a trust.

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