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Trust Definition–noun | 1. | reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. |
| 2. | confident expectation of something; hope. |
| 3. | confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust. |
| 4. | a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust. |
| 5. | the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted. |
| 6. | the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed: a position of trust. |
| 7. | charge, custody, or care: to leave valuables in someone's trust. |
| 8. | something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping, as an office, duty, or the like; responsibility; charge. |
| 9. | Law. | a. | a fiduciary relationship in which one person (the trustee) holds the title to property (the trust estate or trust property) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary). |
| b. | the property or funds so held. |
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| 10. | Commerce. | a. | an illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize produ
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ction costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc. |
| b. | any large industrial or commercial corporation or combination having a monopolistic or semimonopolistic control over the production of some commodity or service. |
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–adjective | 12. | Law. of or pertaining to trusts or a trust. |
–verb (used without object) | 13. | to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something (usually fol. by in or to): to trust in another's honesty; trusting to luck. |
| 14. | to have confidence; hope: Things work out if one only trusts. |
| 15. | to sell merchandise on credit. |
–verb (used with object) | 16. | to have trust or confidence in; rely or depend on. |
| 18. | to expect confidently; hope (usually fol. by a clause or infinitive as object): trusting the job would soon be finished; trusting to find oil on the land. |
| 19. | to commit or consign with trust or confidence. |
| 20. | to permit to remain or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences: He does not trust his children out of his sight. |
| 21. | to invest with a trust; entrust with something. |
| 22. | to give credit to (a person) for goods, services, etc., supplied: Will you trust us till payday? |
—Verb phrase| 23. | trust to, to rely on; trust: Never trust to luck! |
—Idiom| 24. | in trust, in the position of being left in the care or guardianship of another: She left money to her uncle to keep in trust for her children. |
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