TRUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trust mean? 

• TRUST (noun)
  The noun TRUST has 6 senses:

1. something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)

2. certainty based on past experience

3. the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others

4. a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service

5. complete confidence in a person or plan etc

6. a trustful relationship

  Familiarity information: TRUST used as a noun is common.

• TRUST (verb)
  The verb TRUST has 6 senses:

1. have confidence or faith in

2. allow without fear

3. be confident about something

4. expect and wish

5. confer a trust upon

6. (chiefly archaic) extend credit to

  Familiarity information: TRUST used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

he is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father

Hypernyms ("trust" is a kind of...):

belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trust"):

inter vivos trust; living trust (a trust created and operating during the grantor's lifetime)

voting trust (an agreement whereby persons owning stock with voting powers retain ownership while transferring the voting rights to the trustees)

savings account trust; savings bank trust; Totten trust; trust account; trustee account (a savings account deposited by someone who makes themselves the trustee for a beneficiary and who controls it during their lifetime; afterward the balance is payable to the previously named beneficiary)

testamentary trust (a trust that is created under a will and that becomes active after the grantor dies)

spendthrift trust (a trust created to maintain a beneficiary but to be secure against the beneficiary's improvidence)

discretionary trust (a trust that gives the trustee discretion to pay the beneficiary as much of the trust income as the trustee believes appropriate)

direct trust; express trust (a trust created by the free and deliberate act of the parties involved (usually on the basis of written documentation))

implied trust (a trust inferred by operation of law)

Clifford trust; grantor trust (a trust established to shift the income to someone who is taxed at a lower rate than the grantor for a period of 10 years or more)

charitable trust; public trust (a trust created for charitable or religious or educational or scientific purposes)

passive trust (a trust in which the trustee performs no active duties)

blind trust (a trust that enables a person to avoid possible conflict of interest by transferring assets to a fiduciary; the person establishing the trust gives up the right to information about the assets)

active trust (a trust in which the trustee must perform certain duties)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Certainty based on past experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

reliance; trust

Context example:

he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun

Hypernyms ("trust" is a kind of...):

certainty (the state of being certain)

Derivation:

trust (be confident about something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

trust; trustfulness; trustingness

Context example:

the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity

Hypernyms ("trust" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trust"):

credulity (tendency to believe readily)

Antonym:

distrust (the trait of not trusting others)

Derivation:

trust (confer a trust upon)

trusty (worthy of trust or belief)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

cartel; combine; corporate trust; trust

Context example:

they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly

Hypernyms ("trust" is a kind of...):

consortium; pool; syndicate (an association of companies for some definite purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trust"):

drug cartel (an illicit cartel formed to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugs)

oil cartel (a cartel of companies or nations formed to control the production and distribution of oil)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Complete confidence in a person or plan etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

faith; trust

Context example:

the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust

Hypernyms ("trust" is a kind of...):

belief (any cognitive content held as true)

Derivation:

trust (have confidence or faith in)

trusty (worthy of trust or belief)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A trustful relationship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

confidence; trust

Context example:

he betrayed their trust

Hypernyms ("trust" is a kind of...):

friendly relationship; friendship (the state of being friends (or friendly))

Derivation:

trust (confer a trust upon)

trusty (worthy of trust or belief)

• TRUST (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have confidence or faith in

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

We can trust in our government

Hypernyms (to "trust" is one way to...):

believe (accept as true; take to be true)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trust"):

credit (have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of)

lean (rely on for support)

bank; bet; calculate; count; depend; look; reckon; rely; swear (have faith or confidence in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam cannot trust Sue

Antonym:

distrust; mistrust (regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in)

Derivation:

trust (complete confidence in a person or plan etc)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Allow without fear

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "trust" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They trust him to write the letter

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be confident about something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

believe; trust

Context example:

I believe that he will come back from the war

Hypernyms (to "trust" is one way to...):

anticipate; expect (regard something as probable or likely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

trust (certainty based on past experience)

truster (a supporter who accepts something as true)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Expect and wish

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

desire; hope; trust

Context example:

I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise

Hypernyms (to "trust" is one way to...):

wish (hope for; have a wish)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 5

Meaning:

Confer a trust upon

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust

Context example:

I commit my soul to God

Hypernyms (to "trust" is one way to...):

give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trust"):

commend (give to in charge)

charge; consign (give over to another for care or safekeeping)

recommit (commit again)

obligate (commit in order to fulfill an obligation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

trust (the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others)

trust (a trustful relationship)

trustee (members of a governing board)

trustee (a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit)

Sense 6

Meaning:

(chiefly archaic) extend credit to

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

don't trust my ex-wife; I won't pay her debts anymore

Hypernyms (to "trust" is one way to...):

lend; loan (give temporarily; let have for a limited time)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Not to advertise: and to trust this quest of a situation to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was sure no Houyhnhnm alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust Yahoos to manage it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

People who know you, trust you, and had a good experience with you will likely welcome the opportunity to work with you again.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I trust to being in charity with her soon.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I trust that you had no more of those nervous attacks.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"And I venture to trust we may not," I observed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She would trust her mother's judgment in this as she had always trusted it in all things.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With such powers as his, however, and such a disposition as hers, Edmund trusted that everything would work out a happy conclusion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I would tell you where, for I trust you, but it'd make jealousy among the mates.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A person whom an individual knows, likes, and trusts.

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