trust

B2
Pronunciation
/trʊst/
/trʌst/
Noun
11 definition(s)
1 Definition

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

Example Sentences
  • He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
2 Definition

Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

3 Definition

Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

Example Sentences
  • I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
4 Definition

That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.

5 Definition

That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

6 Definition

Trustworthiness, reliability.

7 Definition

The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

8 Definition

The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.

Example Sentences
  • I put the house into my sister's trust.
9 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.

10 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.

11 Definition

Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

Verb
10 definition(s)
1 Definition

To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.

Example Sentences
  • We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
2 Definition

To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

3 Definition

To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)

Example Sentences
  • I trust you have cleaned your room?
4 Definition

To show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.

5 Definition

To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.

6 Definition

To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

Example Sentences
  • Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
7 Definition

(followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).

Example Sentences
  • Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
8 Definition

To risk; to venture confidently.

9 Definition

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

10 Definition

To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Adjective
3 definition(s)
1 Definition

Secure, safe.

2 Definition

Faithful, dependable.

3 Definition

Of or relating to a trust.