fiduciary

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /fʌɪˈdjuːʃəɹi/

Adjective

fiduciary (not comparable)

1. (legal) Relating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.

   a fiduciary contract

   a fiduciary duty

2. Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities.
   • 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 63:

     Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money.

Translations

• French: fiduciaire
• German: treuhänderisch, fiduziarisch
• Italian: fiduciale
• Russian: дове́ренный
• Spanish: fiduciario

Noun

fiduciary (plural fiduciaries)

1. (legal) One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
2. (theology) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.

Translations

• French: mandataire, chargé de pouvoirs, curateur
• German: Treuhänder
• Italian: mandatario
• Russian: опеку́н
• Spanish: fiduciario, fiduciaria, mandatario, apoderado, procurador, representante, curador

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