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Trust   /trəst/   Listen
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



... responded her mother comfortably. "Trust Tim Brennan to be lookin' out for that. An' why wouldn't he, the poor ould fellow? Dear knows, it's hard set the most o' the farmers is to live at all. He's a cute ould schemer, Tim ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

... opinions. I am no Calvinist, and ever since I have been capable of forming a judgment upon theological subjects, I have not been a Calvinist. The sincerity of my attachment to our national Church cannot, I trust, be doubted. I was made a member of her by Baptism, and ever since I have attained to years of discretion, my public devotions have been offered up within her pale. For many a dark year—long before the idea of my being elevated to the clerical ...
— Gwaith Alun • Alun

... truth, you lie well, Simms," he said. "But I don't trust ye. You lie when you say you didn't hear me call out I was blind. Sixty yards away, I was, an' the wind hadn't started. I was afraid—yes, afraid—an' I yelled at the top of my lungs. An' you sailed off ...
— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn

... ought to travel with only his baggage and servant, the former not exceeding 200 pounds. Borasdine had Cossack and baggage in proper quantity; adding me and my impedimenta, he was hardly in light moving order. I suggested that he drop me and I would trust to luck and my padaroshnia. I had confidence in the good nature of the Russians and my limited knowledge of the language. I could exhibit my papers, ask for horses, say I was hungry, and was perfectly confident I could pay out money as long as it ...
— Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life • Thomas Wallace Knox

... unfit, and, as a consequence, would soon cease to progress. If some scheme of artificial selection were substituted to take the place of natural selection, it is evident that competition would still have to be retained to determine who were the fittest. A society that would give positions of trust and responsibility to individuals without imposing some competitive test upon them would be like a ship built partially of good and partially of rotten wood,—it would soon go ...
— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood


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