trustee

English

Etymology

From trust +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌsˈtiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

trustee (plural trustees)

1. (trust law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals (beneficiaries), or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.
   • 2020, Katharina Pistor, “2: Coding Land”, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     The trust property is now managed by a trustee who holds formal title to the asset; the trustee can sell it, but only for the benefit of the beneficiary, and he must replace it with like assets.

2. A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

Derived terms

• board of trustees
• cotrustee
• estate trustee
• executorial trustee
• public trustee
• trustee de son tort
• trusteeship
• trustee stock

 

Translations

person to whom property is legally committed in trust

• Armenian: հոգաբարձու (hy) (hogabarju)
• Bulgarian: попечител (bg) m (popečitel)
• Byzantine Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 受託人／受托人 (zh) (shòutuōrén), 受託者／受托者 (zh) (shòutuōzhě)

• Czech: správce (cs) m, správkyně (cs) f
• Dutch: mandataris (nl), beheerder (nl)
• Finnish: uskottu mies
• French: mandataire social m, fiduciaire (fr) m or f
• German: Treuhänder m, Treuhänderin f
• Greek: διαχειριστής (el) m (diacheiristís)
• Hungarian: vagyonkezelő (hu), meghatalmazott (hu), gondnok (hu), letéteményes (hu), kurátor (hu), megbízott (hu), gyám (hu), kezelő (hu)
• Icelandic: fjárhaldsmaður m
• Ido: depozario (io)
• Indonesian: wali amanat
• Japanese: 受託者 (ja) (じゅたくしゃ, jutakusha), 管財人 (かんざいにん, kanzainin), 保管人 (ほかんにん, hokannin)
• Latin: sequester m
• Malay: pemegang amanah
• Maori: kaitiaki, taratī
• Plautdietsch: Väaminda m
• Polish: powiernik (pl) m, powierniczka f, powiernica f
• Russian: попечи́тель (ru) m (popečítelʹ), попечи́тельница (ru) f (popečítelʹnica), довери́тельный со́бственник m (doverítelʹnyj sóbstvennik), довери́тельная со́бственница f (doverítelʹnaja sóbstvennica)
• Slovak: správca m, správkyňa f
• Spanish: fiduciario (es) m, fiduciaria f
• Tagalog: katiwala
• Thai: ทรัสตี (trás-dtii)

See also

• beneficiary
• settlor

Verb

trustee (third-person singular simple present trustees, present participle trusteeing, simple past and past participle trusteed)

1. (transitive) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee.

   to trustee an estate

2. (transitive) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.

Anagrams

• Surette