trust
- noun
- /trʌst/
- Archaic
- Geographically, the diffusion and acceptance of trusts have been strikingly uneven.
Actually, what trust was trying to do was right.
- Actually, what trust was trying to do was right.
Examples
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Relationships are based on four characteristics: (a) trust, (b) mutual respect, (c) support, and (d) open and honest communication.
Academic text (2011) -
Effective meetings are those in which there is a high level of trust and cooperation among members.
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Within six months, his trust had purchased the entire town.
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With this recognition, the public trust doctrine found a home in American common law.
Academic text (1992) -
Other elements such as fair treatment, discipline, and an atmosphere of trust are also mentioned.
Academic text (1995) -
Cartel called "The Trust" is running a major Psyke operation.
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Utah has one landscape-conservation group, the Summit Land Trust, located in the heavily non-Mormon Park City.
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The completed questionnaires assessed service users' satisfaction by focusing on the domains of interaction, trust, and confidentiality and the consultation.
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The pharmaceutical trust aims to regulate prices and ensure fair access to medications.
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The government is investigating the large oil trust for potential anti-competitive practices.
Synonyms
A group of businesses that agree to control production and prices to limit competition
A group of companies that join to control production and reduce competition
A group of companies that join to control prices and limit competition
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
Money or property kept and managed by someone for another person's use
- Literature
A group of expert advisors who help a leader, often unofficially in politics
- Formal
A legal plan that holds money and property to help many people, for example a school or museum
- Specialized
A way to give money or property to someone else who manages it without the owner's knowledge
- Specialized
A legal plan that lets you keep control of your money and property while alive and avoid court after death
- Specialized
A bank account where one person holds and manages money for another person who will get it later
- Specialized
A company that owns buildings or land that make money and sells shares to investors
- Formal
A document that gives a person control of property to make sure a home loan is repaid
- Specialized
A legal arrangement that holds money or property to support charities and public causes, not for private profit
- Specialized
A company that manages money and property for people or groups, including estates after death
- Specialized
A company, often a bank, that manages money and property for other people
- Archaic
A territory run by another country under an international agreement, often supervised by the United Nations
A crime of illegally taking money or things someone gave you to look after and keeping them for yourself
- Specialized
A legal arrangement giving income to someone taxed less than the giver for at least ten years
- Formal
A court order that makes someone give property back to a person wronged
- Specialized
A legal plan where a person in charge decides how much money each named person receives
- Formal
An arrangement set up by people on purpose, often in writing, to control money and property
- Formal
A way of holding property where the person in charge must manage it and act for the people who benefit
- Formal
An agreement people make on purpose to hold and manage money or property for someone, usually written down
- Specialized
A fund that keeps the same stocks or bonds selected at the start
- Specialized
An arrangement where the person who creates it keeps control and pays tax on the income it earns
- Formal
A legal right to property that the law finds from people's actions when none was written
- Formal
A trust made while the owner is alive to manage money or property for other people
- Formal
An investment that must hold only the stocks and bonds chosen when it was set up
- Specialized
A court order making one person hold property for another when they meant to but did not make it legal
- Formal
A legal arrangement where someone holds property for another without any duties
- Specialized
A bank savings account you control now that gives the money to a named person after your death
- Formal
A bank account where one person keeps and controls money for a named person who receives it after their death
- Formal
A plan made in a will that holds and manages money or property after someone dies
- Formal
A bank account set up so the money goes to a named person when the owner dies
Open honest communication that creates confidence between people or groups
- Formal
A legal plan that gives someone money but keeps others in charge to protect the money from their debts
- UK
A managed fund that puts many people's money together to buy different investments
- Specialized
A company that pools money to buy a set of stocks and bonds, with shares investors can sell back
- Specialized
An agreement where shareholders give their right to vote to other people but keep their shares
How Dominant
- Specialized
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The business meaning of trust grew from the legal trust: companies put control into a single 'trust' to manage many firms, so a trust became a group that controls a market.