trust

noun

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.

That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

(law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.

(trust law) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.

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.

(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.

verb

(transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.

(intransitive, with in) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.

(transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

(transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)

(transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.

(transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.

(transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

(intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).

(intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

(archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.

(archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

adjective

(law) of or relating to a trust.

(obsolete) Secure, safe.

(obsolete) Faithful, dependable.

Synonyms for trust

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