1. Noun
Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
2. Noun
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. Noun
Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
4. Noun
That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
5. Noun
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
6. Noun
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
7. Noun
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. Noun
An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.
9. Adjective
Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
10. Noun
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
11. Noun
To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
12. Noun
To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
13. Noun
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
14. Noun
To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
15. Noun
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.
16. Noun
To risk; to venture confidently.
17. Verb
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
18. Verb
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
19. Verb
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
20. Noun
complete confidence in a person or plan etc; "he cherished the faith of a good woman"; "the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust"
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare
21. Noun
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"
Vocabulary classified under Law
22. Noun
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"
Vocabulary classified under Psychology
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