trust
Pronunciation Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation Noun
trust
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242 ↗:, Book I''
- taking things upon trust.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength!
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- 1611, Such trust have we through Christ. — Authorised Version, 2 Corinthians iii:4.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Psalms 71:5 ↗:
- O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
- (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
- I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that
will put me in trust
- 17th century, John Denham (poet), Of Justice
- Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
- (legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- I put the house into my sister's trust.
- (legal) 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 group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- French: confiance
- German: Vertrauen
- Italian: fiducia
- Portuguese: confiança
- Russian: дове́рие
- Spanish: confianza
- Portuguese: confiabilidade
- French: trust
- German: Trust
- Italian: trust
- Portuguese: consórcio, trust
- Russian: трест
- Spanish: consorcio, trust
trust (trusts, present participle trusting; past and past participle trusted)
- (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
- We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
- In God We Trust ― official US motto
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Act I scene iv:
- I will never trust his word after.
- He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
- (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 3, scene 2]:
- Trust me, you looke well.
- (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
2 John 12. - I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
Heb. xiii. 18. - We trust we have a good conscience.
- I trust you have cleaned your room?
- (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
. - Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.
- (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
. - Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
- (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- to trust to luck
- Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
- (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
- (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i], page 236 ↗, column 2:
- More ſhould I queſtion thee, and more I muſt, / Though more to know, could not be more to truſt: [...]
Isa. xii. 2 - I will trust and not be afraid.
- (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.
- French: faire confiance
- German: vertrauen
- Italian: fidare, avere fiducia
- Portuguese: confiar
- Russian: доверя́ть
- Spanish: confiar, fiarse
- French: avoir foi en quelqu’un
- Spanish: creer
- Spanish: esperar
- Spanish: confiar
- Spanish: confiar
- German: anschreiben
- Spanish: creer, fiar
- French: faire confiance
- French: faire confiance
trust
- (obsolete) Secure, safe.
- (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
- (legal) of or relating to a trust.
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003