Definitions for trusting

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trusting trust·ing

Spelling: [truhs-ting]

IPA: /ˈtrʌs tɪŋ/

Trusting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in trusting (ginrsttu).

Definitions for trusting

noun

1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
2. confident expectation of something; hope.
3. confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit:
4. a person on whom or thing on which one relies:
5. the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.
6. the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed:
7. charge, custody, or care:
8. something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping, as an office, duty, or the like; responsibility; charge.
9. Law. a fiduciary relationship in which one person (the trustee) holds the title to property (the trust estate or trust property) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary). the property or funds so held.
10. Commerce. an illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, a group of people who have assumed the authority to supervise the affairs of the constituent companies, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc. any large industrial or commercial corporation or combination having a monopolistic or semimonopolistic control over the production of some commodity or service.
11. Archaic. reliability.

Idioms

1. in trust, in the position of being left in the care or guardianship of another:

adjective

1. inclined to trust; confiding; trustful:
2. Law. of or relating to trusts or a trust.

Verb phrases

1. trust to, to rely on; trust:

verb (used with object)

1. to have trust or confidence in; rely or depend on.
2. to believe.
3. to expect confidently; hope (usually followed by a clause or infinitive as object):
4. to commit or consign with trust or confidence.
5. to permit to remain or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences:
6. to invest with a trust; entrust or charge with the responsibility for something:
7. to give credit to (a person) for goods, services, etc., supplied:

verb (used without object)

1. to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something (usually followed by in or to):
2. to have confidence; hope:
3. to sell merchandise on credit.

Origin of trusting

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at trust, -ing²

Examples for trusting

For the past 15 years, he said, he has been “doing everything to keep a trusting relationship” with Moscow.

I had no problem at all trusting that people were on task, and I assumed my boss in Sunnyvale trusted me, too.

In trusting too much in government, we have asked of it more than it can deliver.

Polls show that the most recent surge in Americans trusting their government happened while President Clinton was in office.

He could not unclasp the trusting little hand that was slipped in his.

No men were to be had, and then arose the question about trusting the old crew.

trusting you will be able to concur in the foregoing suggestions.

The truth was that it was only by trusting to the magic of the white men that Patofa could get to us.

With few protective barriers in place, their safety relies heavily on testing protocols and trusting their partners.

The theme of London Fashion Week has been, overall, toward a soft, yielding, trusting vision of femininity.