trust

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trust
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Meanings
noun
  • firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something.
    E.g. relations have to be built on trust
  • an arrangement whereby a person (a trustee) holds property as its nominal owner for the good of one or more beneficiaries.
    E.g. a trust was set up
  • a large company that has or attempts to gain monopolistic control of a market.
  • commercial credit.
    E.g. my master lived on trust at an alehouse
  • a hope or expectation.
    E.g. all the great trusts of womanhood
verb
  • believe in the reliability, truth, or ability of.
    E.g. I should never have trusted her
  • allow credit to (a customer).
    E.g. all persons are forbid to trust sailors

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