trust
 trust (trŭst)n.
1. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
2. Custody; care.
3. Something committed into the care of another; charge.
4.
a. The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one:
violated a public trust.
b. One in which confidence is placed.
5. Reliance on something in the future; hope.
6. Reliance on the intention and ability of a purchaser to pay in the future; credit.
7. Law.
a. A legal title to property held by one party for the benefit of another.
b. The confidence reposed in a trustee when giving the trustee legal title to property to administer for another, together with the trustee's obligation regarding that property and the beneficiary.
c. The property so held.
8. A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry.v. trust·ed, trust·ing, trustsv. intr.
1. To have or place reliance; depend:
Trust in the Lord. Trust to destiny.
2. To be confident; hope.
3. To sell on credit.v. tr.
1. To have or place confidence in; depend on.
2. To expect with assurance; assume:
I trust that you will be on time.
3. To believe:
I trust what you say.
4. To place in the care of another; entrust.
5. To grant discretion to confidently:
Can I trust them with the boat?
6. To extend credit to.Idiom:in trust
In the possession or care of a trustee. [Middle English truste, perhaps from Old Norse traust, confidence. See deru- in Indo-European Roots.] trustʹer n.
Synonyms: trust, faith, confidence, reliance, dependence
These nouns denote a feeling of certainty that a person or thing will not fail. Trust implies depth and assurance of feeling that is often based on inconclusive evidence: The mayor vowed to justify the trust the electorate had placed in him. Faith connotes unquestioning, often emotionally charged belief: “Often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true” (William James). Confidence, frequently implies stronger grounds for assurance: “Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity” (William Pitt). Reliance connotes a confident and trustful commitment to another: “What reliance could they place on the protection of a prince so recently their enemy?” (William Hickling Prescott). Dependence suggests reliance on another to whom one is often subordinate: “When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependence on him” (Richard Steele). See also synonyms at care See also synonyms at rely
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