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Etymology

Middle English truste (“trust, protection”) from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”) from Proto-Germanic *traust- from Proto-Indo-European *drouzdo- from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst, tröst (“trust”), Old Frisian trāst (“trust”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), Old High German trōst (“trust, fidelity”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (“alliance, pact”). More at true, tree.

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Noun

trust (plural trusts)

  1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
    • 1671, O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, Samson Agonistes
    He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to let her back.
  2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
    • 1611, Such trust have we through Christ. — Authorised Version, 2 Corinthians iii:4.
  3. 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.
  4. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
  5. (law) 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.
  6. 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.

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Verb

trust (third-person singular simple present trusts, present participle trusting, simple past and past participle trusted)

  1. (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
    We can not trust those who have deceived us.
    In God We Trust written on denominations of U.S. currency
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
      I will never trust his word after.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Johnson
      He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
  2. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
      Trust me, you look well.
  3. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
    • (Can we date this quote?) 2 John 12.
      I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Heb. xiii. 18.
      We trust we have a good conscience.
    I trust you have cleaned your room?
  4. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
    • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden.
      Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.
  5. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Babington Macaulay.
      Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
  6. (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.
  7. (transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
    • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
      [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
  8. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
      More to know could not be more to trust.
  9. (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Isa. xii. 2
      I will trust and not be afraid.
  10. (intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Johnson
      It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.

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Translations

To place confidence in
To give credence to
  • Finnish: luottaa (fi), uskoa (fi)
  • French: avoir foi en quelqu'un
To hope confidently
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something
To commit; to intrust
To give credit to
To risk
To have trust
To be confident
  • Latin: confido (la)
  • Norwegian: være trygg (no)
  • Swedish: förtrösta (sv), känna förtröstan (sv), känna tilltro (sv)
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment

Adjective

trust (comparative more trust, superlative most trust)

  1. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
  2. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.

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trust m. inv.

  1. trust (group of people)

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