to entrust
- verb
- /ɪnˈtrʌst/
- After the meeting, the manager entrusts the team with completing the project on time.
- entrusted with the task
- entrust children to someone
- entrusted to the care
And I became the guy that he entrusted to help do that.
- And I became the guy that he entrusted to help do that.
- Thank you for entrusting these remarkable graduates to us.
- That I would entrust you with my precious material.
- And let me add my thanks to the family and friends for entrusting your students to us.
- So what we have is sending them outside the land, entrusting them to a carer.
- Can I just say, well, you're, you're losing what, what you entrusted to me, right?
- This is their mother, their spouse, their, you know, their child, and they've entrusted that to you.
- Do I continue to, do I just follow my orders and let the people I'm entrusted with leading suffer as a result?
- Let's entrust them to add the page on behalf of all of us to the Ledger.
- If that's the level of security you want when you drive three blocks, why wouldn't you want that for code to which you are entrusting your most intimate details?
Examples
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I want to thank you for entrusting your loved ones to us.
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I fear I can entrust this to no one but you.
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Until then, I know I can entrust this material and my reputation to you.
Fiction book (1996) -
I ask only this, and then I'll entrust my whole life to you.
Fiction book (1992) -
You have entrusted us with an awesome responsibility.
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Thank you for entrusting these remarkable graduates to us.
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And Tony, we have every confidence you'll do the job that was entrusted to you.
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But everything she owned was here, and Eleanor had entrusted her with all her worldly possessions.
Fiction book (1997) -
The teacher decided to entrust the care of the classroom pet to the responsible student.
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She chose to entrust her savings to a reliable financial advisor for safe investment.
Synonyms
To let another person take care of something or someone
To put someone or something into another person's care
To ask another person to take care of someone or something
To put trust in someone or something
Give something to someone to take care of
To give someone an important thing or job to look after
Antonyms
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Entrust comes from the idea of putting something 'in trust'. The en- part means 'in' and the trust part means 'faith' or 'care', so to entrust someone with something is to give them responsibility for it.