Phonetics:
Meanings:
noun
Definition: Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
Example: He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
Definition: Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
Definition: Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
Example: I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
Definition: That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
Definition: That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
Definition: Trustworthiness, reliability.
Definition: The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
Definition: The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
Example: I put the house into my sister’s trust.
Definition: 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.
Definition: 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.
Definition: Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
verb
Definition: To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
Example: We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
Definition: To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Definition: To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
Example: I trust you have cleaned your room?
Definition: To show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
Definition: To commit, as to one’s care; to entrust.
Definition: To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
Example: Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
Definition: (followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
Example: Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
Definition: To risk; to venture confidently.
Definition: To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
Definition: To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
adjective
Definition: Secure, safe.
Definition: Faithful, dependable.
Definition: Of or relating to a trust.