TRUSTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trustee mean? 

• TRUSTEE (noun)
  The noun TRUSTEE has 2 senses:

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

2. members of a governing board

  Familiarity information: TRUSTEE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUSTEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

legal guardian; trustee

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

fiduciary (a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

trust (confer a trust upon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Members of a governing board

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

regent; trustee

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

committee member (a member of a committee)

Holonyms ("trustee" is a member of...):

governing board (a board that manages the affairs of an institution)

Derivation:

trust (confer a trust upon)

 Context examples 

They seize him and use violence towards him in order to make him sign some papers to make over the girl’s fortune—of which he may be trustee—to them.

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

He was himself red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; so, when he died, it was found that he had left his enormous fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of that colour.

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

A great curiosity came on the trustee, to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It’s worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits’ end what to do with the money.

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