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trust

Pronunciation: /tɹʌst/

The English word “trust” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  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. Trustworthiness, reliability.
  7. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  8. The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
  9. An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
  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. Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

verb

  1. To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
  2. To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
  3. To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  4. To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
  5. to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
  6. To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
  7. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
  8. To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
  9. To risk; to venture confidently.

Etymology

From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste…

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