trust
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- IPA: /tɹʌst/
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- Rhymes: -ʌst
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trust (plural trusts)
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
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- 1671, O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, Samson Agonistes
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- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
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- 1611, Such trust have we through Christ. — Authorised Version, 2 Corinthians iii:4.
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- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
- (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
- (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- 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.
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Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality
Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit
The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another
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to trust (third-person singular simple present trusts, present participle trusting, simple past and past participle trusted)
- (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
- We can not trust those who have deceived us.
- I will never trust his word after. --Shakespeare
- He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson.
- (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- Trust me, you look well. --Shakespeare
- (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
- I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12.
- We trust we have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18.
- (transitive) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
- Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --John Dryden.
- (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
- Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
- (transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
- [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. -- John Milton.
- (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- More to know could not be more to trust. --Shakespeare
- (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
- I will trust and not be afraid. --Isa. xii. 2.
- (intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust. --Johnson.
[edit] Translations
To place confidence in
To give credence to
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something
To commit; to intrust
To give credit to
To have trust
To be confident
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To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment
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trust (comparative more trust, superlative most trust)
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[edit] Italian
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trust m. inv.
- trust (group of people)
[edit] Derived terms
- trust di cervelli - brains trust
