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| trust [ trust ] |
noun (plural trusts) |
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1. reliance: confidence in and reliance on good qualities, especially fairness, truth, honor, or ability
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2. position of obligation: the position of somebody who is expected by others to behave responsibly or honorably
  breached the public trust
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3. hope for future: hopeful reliance on what will happen in the future
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4. care: responsibility for taking good care of somebody or something
We put our children in the trust of a good daycare center.
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5. U.S. responsibility that somebody has: something entrusted to somebody to be responsible for
accepted his responsibilities as a sacred trust
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6. law holding of another's property: the legal holding and managing of money or property belonging to somebody else, e.g. that of a minor
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7. law arrangement to manage another's property: a legal arrangement by which one person trustee holds and manages money or property belonging to somebody else
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8. commerce credit: credit given to somebody on purchases made
Let me have it on trust.
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9. U.S. commerce cartel: a combination of corporations with the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices
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verb (past and past participle trust·ed, present participle trust·ing, 3rd person present singular trusts) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb rely on somebody or something: to place confidence in somebody or in somebody's good qualities, especially fairness, truth, honor, or ability
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2. transitive verb confidently allow somebody to do something: to allow somebody to do something, having confidence that the person will behave responsibly or properly
I trust you to do the right thing.
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3. transitive verb place something in somebody's care: to place somebody or something in the care of another person
You could certainly trust him with such an important job.
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4. transitive verb suppose something: to hope or suppose something
I trust you had a good vacation.
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5. transitive verb Caribbean give credit to somebody: to give somebody credit on a purchase
wouldn't even trust me a carton of milk
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| [12th century. < Old Norse traust "confidence," treysta "to trust"] |
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