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Trust

noun

1.

Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary).

2.

Certainty based on past experience. Synonym: reliance. "He put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun"

3.

The trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others. Synonyms: trustfulness, trustingness.

4.

A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service. Synonyms: cartel, combine, corporate trust.

5.

Complete confidence in a person or plan etc. Synonym: faith. "The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust"

6.

A trustful relationship. Synonym: confidence. "He betrayed their trust"

verb

(past & past part. trusted; pres. part. trusting)

1.

Have confidence or faith in. Synonyms: bank, rely, swear. "Rely on your friends" , "Bank on your good education" , "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

2.

Allow without fear.

3.

Be confident about something. Synonym: believe.

4.

Expect and wish. Synonyms: desire, hope. "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"

5.

Confer a trust upon. Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, intrust. "I commit my soul to God"

6.

Extend credit to.

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"Trust" Quotes from Famous Books

... the memory of every student; his photograph decorates every student's album. Without him our college would be incomplete. Esteemed by all for his unfailing integrity and industry, laughed at by all for his oddities, he remains ever the same. We trust that the day is far distant when he will be among us no more, and when the college walls shall cease to echo his chaotic ...

— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park

... hand. "No. It would break all to pieces the first time you tried to shoot it, because it is thirty-five years old. I want to send it back to your father. I think it's time. You give it to him from me, and tell him I say I believe I can trust him with it now. I took it away from him thirty-five years ago, one day after he'd killed my best hen with it, accidentally, and broken a glass pitcher on the back porch with it—accidentally. He doesn't look like a person who's ever done things of that sort, and I suppose he's forgotten it ...

— Penrod • Booth Tarkington

... ate that!" replied Brother Lustig, and hastily swept up the gold. "You may trust what I say." "But how can that be true," said St. Peter, "when a lamb has no heart?" "Eh, what, brother, what can you be thinking of? Lambs have hearts like other animals, why should only they have ...

— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers

... which to base joyous anticipation, had gone to bed thinking of Santa Claus and hoping that, amidst equally deserving hundreds of thousands of obscure children, this little mite in her cold, cheerless garret might not be overlooked by the generous dispenser of joy. With the sublime trust of childhood she had insisted upon hanging up her ragged stocking. Santa Claus would have to be very careful indeed lest things should drop through and clatter upon the floor. Her heart had beaten, too, although she descended ...

— A Little Book for Christmas • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... intimation that he might have been false to his trust, and replied, with some show of ...

— Under Fire - A Tale of New England Village Life • Frank A. Munsey

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