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Trust   /trəst/   Listen
noun
Trust  n.  
1.
Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance. "O ever-failing trust in mortal strength!" "Most take things upon trust."
2.
Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.
3.
Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. "Such trust have we through Christ." "His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength."
4.
That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
5.
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. "(I) serve him truly that will put me in trust." "Reward them well, if they observe their trust."
6.
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. "O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth."
7.
(Law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.
8.
An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary.
9.
A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it may be effected by putting a majority of their stock either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the name trust for the combination) or by transferring a majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying on a large business, as well as the doing away with competition. In the United States severe statutes against trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in many States, with elaborate statutory definitions.
Synonyms: Confidence; belief; faith; hope; expectation.
Trust deed (Law), a deed conveying property to a trustee, for some specific use.


verb
Trust  v. t.  (past & past part. trusted; pres. part. trusting)  
1.
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. "I will never trust his word after." "He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived."
2.
To give credence to; to believe; to credit. "Trust me, you look well."
3.
To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. "I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face." "We trustwe have a good conscience."
4.
To show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. "Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain."
5.
To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. "Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war."
6.
To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
7.
To risk; to venture confidently. "(Beguiled) by thee to trust thee from my side."


Trust  v. i.  
1.
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. "More to know could not be more to trust."
2.
To be confident, as of something future; to hope. "I will trust and not be afraid."
3.
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit. "It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust."
To trust in, To trust on, to place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. "Trust in the Lord, and do good." "A priest... on whom we trust." "Her widening streets on new foundations trust."
To trust to or To trust unto, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on; as, to trust to luck. "They trusted unto the liers in wait."


adjective
Trust  adj.  Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.





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... parliament; and yet it maybe seriously questioned, whether the judges of the South Sea Directors were the true and legal representatives of their country. The first parliament of George the First had been chosen (1715) for three years: the term had elapsed, their trust was expired; and the four additional years (1718-1722), during which they continued to sit, were derived not from the people, but from themselves; from the strong measure of the septennial bill, which can only be paralleled by il serar di consiglio of the Venetian history. Yet ...
— Memoirs of My Life and Writings • Edward Gibbon
... subjects, in support of the established constitution. In consequence of this recommendation Mr. Secretary Hobart brought the bill of relief into the house of commons; the chief enacting clause of which enabled the Catholics to exercise and enjoy all civil and military offices, and places of trust or profit under the crown, under certain restrictions. This privilege was not to extend so far as to enable any Roman Catholic to sit or vote in either house of parliament, or to fill the office of lord-lieutenant or lord chancellor, or judge in either of the three courts of ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... the landscape like an elusive puzzle picture. In summer they had depended on their speckled plumage, so like the mottled patches of sand and snow and grass and granite whereon they lived, to protect them. They certainly put their trust in nature! ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills
... Comtesse d'Alinvil, is always trying to play Potiphar's wife to him, and there is a certain Mademoiselle Gothon who would not figure as she does here in a book by Mr. Thomas Day)—beset him constantly; he is induced not merely to trust his enemies, but to distrust his friends; there is a good deal of underground work and of the explained supernatural; a benevolent musician; an excellent cure; a rather "coming" but agreeable Adrienne de Surval, who, close to the end of the book, hides her trouble in ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury
... into the wide, wide world, With joy and delight we go; The woods are dressing, the meadows greening, The flowers beginning to blow. Listen here! and look there! We can scarce trust our eyes, For the singing and soaring, the joy ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese


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