Definitions for Trust

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Trust trust

Spelling: [truhst]

IPA: /trʌst/

Trust is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Trust (rsttu).

Definitions for Trust

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. 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 Trust

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English Old Norse traust trust (cognate with German Trost comfort); (v.) Middle English trusten Old Norse treysta, derivative of traust

Examples for Trust

That he is afraid to trust banks, and hides his money in the earth.

Maybe at one point I would have envied these students who grew up in privileged families so often laden with trust funds.

The more we learn about the government these days, the less we can trust it.

In order for a reunion to happen, it would take a high level of trust, musically, on everything that happened.

I trust he is not running after the new doctrine of the hawkers and pedlars.

Others have taken the stage to tell women to just work harder and trust in karma.

I know, better than you possibly can, what reasons I have to trust the strength of his affection.

If she wants voters to believe and trust in her, she must court favor with the local pastor, Jeremiah.

I can't say, captain, for I don't know the man; but I don't like to trust any man too far.

I got to trust you wholly in these matters, and I know I can do it, too.