Trust

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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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