trust

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Synonyms: thrust, tryst, truss, trist, rust, crust, trest, trus, truest, trst, trost

Antonyms: thrust, tryst, truss, trist, rust, crust, trest, trus, truest, trst, trost

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Noun

1. [[confidence|Confidence]] in or [[reliance]] on some person or quality.
2. [[dependence|Dependence]] upon something in the future; [[hope]].
3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; [[credit]].
4. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
5. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
6. {{lb|en|rare}} [[trustworthiness|Trustworthiness]], [[reliability]].
7. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
8. {{lb|en|legal}} The [[confidence]] vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
9. {{lb|en|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.
10. 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]].
11. {{lb|en|computing}} Affirmation of the [[access]] [[right]]s of a [[user]] of a computer system.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
2. {{lb|en|intransitive|with {{m|en|in}}}} To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To give [[credence]] to; to believe; to credit.
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
5. {{lb|en|transitive}} to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
6. {{lb|en|transitive}} To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
7. {{lb|en|transitive}} To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
8. {{lb|en|intransitive|followed by {{l|en|to}}}} To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
9. {{lb|en|archaic|transitive}} To risk; to venture confidently.
10. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
11. {{lb|en|archaic|intransitive}} To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Interjection

1. {{lb|en|originally|AAVE|slang}} {{ellipsis of|en||trust me}}, often used sarcastically or self-mockingly.

Adjective

1. {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[secure|Secure]], [[safe]].
2. {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[faithful|Faithful]], [[dependable]].
3. {{lb|en|legal}} of or relating to a trust.

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