Definition of "trust"
- noun
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
Trustworthiness, reliability.
The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit 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.
: trust from an operating system against an application or user that results in access rights.
- verb
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
To show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
To risk; to venture confidently.
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
- adjective
Secure, safe.
Faithful, dependable.
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