entrustment
- noun
- /ɪnˈtrʌstmənt/
- Formal
:
encargo
- Effective entrustment of financial duties requires a high level of trust in the appointed person.
Examples
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Such criticism derives from the fact that entrustment implies an asymmetry between the aware woman and the unaware woman without acknowledging that consciousness is manifold and both sexually and historically conditioned.
Academic text (1995) -
Although each of these relationships involves significant information asymmetries, generating a risk of opportunism, the relationships are all presumptively arm's-length; none by definition involves an entrustment of power from one party to another to be exercised under a purposive and other-regarding mandate.
Academic text (2017) -
This is one of the risks found in the "practice of entrustment," as it has been experienced by some groups and highly criticized by others.
Academic text (1995) -
In 1981, he composed a prayer to Our Lady, called an Act of Entrustment, with Russia included as a special reference, but not mentioned by name.
Blog text (29) -
Still others have emphasized the "entrustment" of other-regarding power as a defining feature of fiduciary relationships.
Academic text (2017) -
The owner of the car, a 31-year-old Canton woman who was not present, was cited for wrongful entrustment.
Blog text (31) -
On May 13, 1982, JPII went to Fatima to thank Our Lady personally at her shrine for saving his life and repeated the Act of Entrustment, exactly one year after the assassination attempt.
Blog text (29) -
Fiduciary relationships formed solely by the entrustment of power over confidential information are an example of what courts and commentators have sometimes described as "ad hoc" or "informal" fiduciary relationships.
Academic text (2017) -
Under the republican theory, a party is a fiduciary if she has been entrusted with power over another party's legal or practical interests. For the sake of clarity, it may be helpful to break this definition down into its various component parts to allow for closer inspection. 1. Entrustment: A defining feature of any fiduciary relationship is entrusted power.
Academic text (2017) -
The manager's entrustment of the project to her most reliable employee boosted the team's productivity.
Synonyms
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2.7
A duty to do something and answer for what you do
Antonyms
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Entrustment comes from the parts en- meaning 'in' or 'put into' and trust meaning 'belief in someone'. So, think of placing a thing or a job 'into someone's trust'—entrustment is the act of giving someone responsibility for something important.