truster

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Etymology[edit]

From trust +‎ -er.

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truster (plural trusters)

  1. A person who trusts.
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
      I would not hear your enemy say so,
      Nor shall you do mine ear that violence
      To make it truster of your own report
      Against yourself.
    • 1856, Walt Whitman, “Poem of the Road” [later entitled “Song of the Open Road”] in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860, p. 324,[1]
      Habitues of many different countries, habitues of far-distant dwellings,
      Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,
    • 1950, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 7, in Across the River and into the Trees[2], London: Readers Union, published 1952:
      Giorgio did not really like the Colonel very much, or perhaps he was simply from Piemonte and cared for no one truly; which was understandable in cold people from a border province. Borderers are not trusters and the Colonel knew about this and expected nothing from anyone that they did not have to give.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

trust (from English trust) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /tʁœs.te/
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

truster

  1. (finance) to put into a trust
  2. (by extension) to monopolize
    • 2011, Didier Lestrade, “Pied-Noir et pro-Arabe”, in Revue Minorités:
      Et je me dis que la dernière génération de pieds-noirs à laquelle j’appartiens devrait manifester sa joie et l’imposer à l’autre partie des pieds-noirs, plus âgée, celle qui truste les associations et les leaders politiques, celle qui empêche littéralement la France de sortir de cette rancœur vis-à-vis les Arabes.
      And I tell myself that the final generation of Pieds-Noirs to which I belong should have made clear their joy and imposed it on the other part of the Pieds-Noirs, the older ones who monopolize the associations [of Pieds-Noirs] and the political leadership, who quite literally block France from escaping this resentment towards the Arabs.
  3. (Canada, colloquial, proscribed) to trust; to believe in

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