From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trust \Trust\, noun [OE. trust, trost, Icel. traust confidence, security; akin to Dan. & Sw. tr["o]st comfort, consolation, G. trost, Goth. trausti a convention, covenant, and E. true. See {True}, and cf. {Tryst}.]
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!'' --Milton.
Most take things upon trust. --Locke.
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.'' --2 Cor. iii. 4.
His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength. --Milton.
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. --Shak.
Reward them well, if they observe their trust. --Denham.
6. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. --Ps. lxxi. 5.
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Syn: Confidence; belief; faith; hope; expectation.
{Trust deed} (Law), a deed conveying property to a trustee, for some specific use.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trust \Trust\, adjective Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trust \Trust\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Trusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trusting}.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See {Trust}, noun]
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. --Shak.
He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson.
2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Trust me, you look well. --Shak.
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. --2 John 12.
We trustwe have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18.
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. --Dryden.
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. --Macaulay.
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. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trust \Trust\, verb (used without an object)
1. To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
More to know could not be more to trust. --Shak.
2. To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
I will trust and not be afraid. --Isa. xii. 2.
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. --Johnson.
{To trust in}, {To trust on}, to place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. ''Trust in the Lord, and do good.'' --Ps. xxxvii. 3. ''A priest . . . on whom we trust.'' --Chaucer.
Her widening streets on new foundations trust. --Dryden.
{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. --Judges xx. 36.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary); "he is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father"
2: certainty based on past experience; "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"; "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun" [syn: {reliance}]
3: the trait of trusting; of believing in the honesty and reliability of others; "the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity" [syn: {trustingness}, {trustfulness}] [ant: {distrust}]
4: a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service; "they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly" [syn: {corporate trust}, {combine}, {cartel}]
5: complete confidence in a person or plan etc; "he cherished the faith of a good woman"; "the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust" [syn: {faith}]
6: a trustful relationship; "he took me into his confidence"; "he betrayed their trust" [syn: {confidence}]
verb
1: have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes" [syn: {swear}, {rely}, {bank}] [ant: {distrust}, {distrust}]
3: be confident about something; "I believe that he will come back from the war" [syn: {believe}]
4: expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise" [syn: {hope}, {desire}]
5: confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: {entrust}, {intrust}, {confide}, {commit}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
285 Moby Thesaurus words for "trust": Aktiengesellschaft, absolute interest, accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, agency, agentship, aktiebolag, arrogance, aspiration, aspire to, assign, assignment, assumption, assurance, assured faith, assuredness, authority, authorization, bank credit, bank on, be certain, belief, believe, believe in, believe without reservation, benefit, body corporate, book credit, borrowing power, brevet, business, business establishment, buy, care, carry, cartel, cash credit, certainty, certitude, chain, chamber of commerce, charge, cheerful expectation, claim, closed-end investment company, cocksureness, combine, commend, commercial credit, commercial enterprise, commission, commissioning, commit, commitment, common, compagnie, company, concern, confide, confide in, confidence, confidentness, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consign, consignment, consolidating company, consortium, consumer credit, contingent interest, conviction, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, count on, courage, credence, credibility, credit, credit insurance, credit rating, credit union, credulity, cure, custody, deem trustworthy, delegate, delegated authority, delegation, depend on, dependability, dependence, deputation, depute, desire, devolution, devolvement, diversified corporation, doomed hope, easement, embassy, empower, empowerment, enfeoff, enterprise, entrust, entrusting, entrustment, equitable interest, equity, errand, estate, executorship, exequatur, expect, expectation, extend credit, factorship, fair prospect, faith, feel confident, fervent hope, firm, full power, give, give credit, give faith to, give in charge, give in trust, give tick, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, group, growth fund, guardianship, hand over, harbor the hope, have confidence in, have faith in, high hopes, hire purchase plan, holding, holding company, hope, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, house, hubris, industry, infeudate, installment credit, installment plan, interest, investment company, investment credit, investment trust, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, jurisdiction, keeping, lean upon, legation, license, lieutenancy, limitation, line of credit, live in hopes, load fund, mandate, mission, monopoly, mutual fund, never-never, no-load fund, nurture the hope, office, operating company, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, part, partnership, percentage, place confidence in, place reliance in, plenipotentiary power, plunderbund, poise, pomposity, pool, positiveness, power of attorney, power to act, prayerful hope, presume, presumption, pride, procuration, promise, prospect, prospects, protection, proxy, public utility, purview, put faith in, put trust in, rating, receive, reception, regency, regentship, relegate, reliability, reliance, reliance on, rely on, rely upon, remand, remit, repose, repose confidence in, repose in, responsibility, rest assured, rest in, right, right of entry, safekeeping, sanguine expectation, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, sell on credit, set store by, settled belief, settlement, stake, stock, stock company, store, strict settlement, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, swallow, syndicate, take for granted, take on faith, take on trust, take stock in, task, tax credit, think reliable, tick, title, trade association, trust implicitly, trust in, trusteeship, trustworthiness, use, utility, vested interest, vicarious authority, ward, warrant, well-grounded hope
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
TRUST, noun In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
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