n.
- firm belief in someone or something.
▸acceptance of the truth of a statement without evidence or investigation.
- the state of being responsible for someone or something:
a man in a position of trust.
- Law an arrangement whereby a person (a trustee) holds property as its nominal owner for the good of one or more beneficiaries.
▸a body of trustees.
▸an organization managed by trustees.
- chiefly N. Amer. a large company that has or attempts to gain monopolistic control of a market.
- W. Indian or archaic commercial credit.
- archaic a hope or expectation.
v.
- believe in the reliability, truth, or ability of.
▸
(trust someone with)
have the confidence to allow someone to have, use, or look after.
▸
(trust someone/thing to)
commit someone or something to the safe keeping of.
▸
(trust to)
place reliance on (luck, fate, etc.).
- hope or expect (used as a polite formula):
I trust that you have enjoyed this book.
- archaic allow credit to.
Phrase
- trust someone to ——
it is characteristic or predictable for someone to act in the specified way.
Derivative
- trustable adj.
- trusted adj.
- truster n.
Etymology
ME: from ON traust, from traustr ‘strong’; the verb from ON treysta.