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Trustee

A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

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Fiduciary 76% connected

One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Commit 74% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Commit 74% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Regent 92% connected

Ruling; governing; regnant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Assignee noun · 78% connection

(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)

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Assignment noun · 78% connection

The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.

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Bail v./t. · 78% connection

To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be fait…

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Bailee noun · 78% connection

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes…

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Bailiff noun · 78% connection

Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, property, legally, committed, trust.
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Charge verb · 78% connection

A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.

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Commission noun · 78% connection

The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.

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Committible adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed.

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Confidante n. fem. · 78% connection

One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.

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Congregation noun · 78% connection

A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Pr…

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Credit noun · 78% connection

Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile repu…

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Criminal noun · 78% connection

someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

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Crook noun · 78% connection

someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

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Disponee noun · 78% connection

The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.

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Donee noun · 78% connection

Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…

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Dynamiter noun · 78% connection

One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, property, legally, committed, trust.
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Embassy noun · 78% connection

The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign cou…

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Embezzle verb · 78% connection

To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust…

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