trust

Definitions


[trʌst], (Noun)

Definitions:
- firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something
(e.g: relations have to be built on trust)

- an arrangement whereby a person (a trustee) holds property as its nominal owner for the good of one or more beneficiaries
(e.g: a trust was set up)

- a large company that has or attempts to gain monopolistic control of a market

- commercial credit
(e.g: my master lived on trust at an alehouse)

- a hope or expectation
(e.g: all the great trusts of womanhood)


Phrases:
- not trust someone as far as one can throw them
- trust someone to —

Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse traust, from traustr ‘strong’; the verb from Old Norse treysta, assimilated to the noun


[trʌst], (Verb)

Definitions:
- believe in the reliability, truth, or ability of
(e.g: I should never have trusted her)

- allow credit to (a customer)
(e.g: all persons are forbid to trust sailors)


Phrases:
- not trust someone as far as one can throw them
- trust someone to —

Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse traust, from traustr ‘strong’; the verb from Old Norse treysta, assimilated to the noun




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