Trust

/tɹʌst/ · noun

Meaning

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality..

Definitions by Sense

1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
4. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
5. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
6. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
7. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
8. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.

Example Sentences

He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.

to lose trust in someone

build up trust

a relationship built on mutual trust

taking things upon trust.

O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength!

Such trust have we through Christ.

I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.

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Word Forms

• trusts
• trusting
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• trustest
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• more trust
• most trust

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