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to trust

to trust

2 9.9
To allow someone to buy now and pay later
  • verb
  • /trʌst/
  • Archaic
: fiar
  • After three long years of scandal, archaeology is no longer trusted as a science in the Basque Country.

Examples

  • Still, people could blindly trust neither governments nor churches to defend and enforce those principles.

    Academic text (2014)
  • I can be trusted now.

  • People need to know I can be trusted.

  • Is the man to be trusted?

  • Willie has proved once more that he cannot be trusted.

  • See, I got it off the street from this guy for $200, and he said he'd trust me for it until Friday.

  • Eventually, the men voted for several migrant workers whom they believed could be trusted with the funds.

    Academic text (2010)
  • But since I was a trusting person, I let myself be guided by instinct.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • You can't just trust your intellect.

  • The shopkeeper agreed to let her take the goods home on credit, trusting that she would pay him back later.

Synonyms

to lend
vsto trust
319 1.0

Give something to someone for a short time and expect it back

allows someone to owe money and pay later instead of returning an item

Idioms

Believe someone can make good decisions

Believe in planned steps even when results are not clear

Act on a feeling that something is right without checking facts

Phrasal Verbs

To win back someone's trust after you lost it

Compounds

trust fund
  • Specialized
105 3.7

Money or property kept and managed by someone for another person's use

brain trust
  • Literature
13 5.6

A group of expert advisors who help a leader, often unofficially in politics

public trust
  • Formal
13 4.9

A legal plan that holds money and property to help many people, for example a school or museum

blind trust
  • Specialized
6 5.8

A way to give money or property to someone else who manages it without the owner's knowledge

6 4.1

A loss of confidence in someone because they lie or break promises

trust account
  • Specialized
5 4.4

A bank account where one person holds and manages money for another person who will get it later

To break the trust someone gives you by acting dishonestly or failing a duty

charitable trust
  • Specialized
4 5.1

A legal arrangement that holds money or property to support charities and public causes, not for private profit

4 5.1

A company that sells shares and invests the money in many other companies

living trust
  • Specialized
3 6.0

A legal plan that lets you keep control of your money and property while alive and avoid court after death

A strong lasting relationship where people trust each other

3 3.9

A company that owns buildings or land that make money and sells shares to investors

deed of trust
  • Formal
2 8.4

A document that gives a person control of property to make sure a home loan is repaid

An activity where people learn to depend on each other

trust company
  • Specialized
1 5.3

A company that manages money and property for people or groups, including estates after death

A British charity that looks after old houses, gardens, and the countryside

trust territory
  • Archaic
1 8.1

A territory run by another country under an international agreement, often supervised by the United Nations

Open honest communication that creates confidence between people or groups

1 9.2

A trust made while the owner is alive to manage money or property for other people

trust busting
  • Archaic
1 6.3

Government actions to break up very large companies that control a market

grantor trust
  • Specialized
1 9.7

An arrangement where the person who creates it keeps control and pays tax on the income it earns

trust deed
  • Specialized
1 7.1

A document that gives property to a trustee as security for a loan

trust corporation
  • Specialized
1 6.3

A company, often a bank, that manages money and property for other people

discretionary trust
  • Specialized
1 7.8

A legal plan where a person in charge decides how much money each named person receives

corporate trust
  • Archaic
1 6.9

A group of companies that join to control prices and limit competition

1 6.0

A managed fund that puts many people's money together to buy different investments

1 9.6

A plan made in a will that holds and manages money or property after someone dies

savings account trust
  • Specialized
1 6.1

A bank savings account you control now that gives the money to a named person after your death

implied trust
  • Formal
1 8.1

A legal right to property that the law finds from people's actions when none was written

unit investment trust
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A company that pools money to buy a set of stocks and bonds, with shares investors can sell back

direct trust
  • Formal
1 6.7

An arrangement set up by people on purpose, often in writing, to control money and property

1 9.9

A legal plan that gives someone money but keeps others in charge to protect the money from their debts

voting trust
  • Specialized
1 7.1

An agreement where shareholders give their right to vote to other people but keep their shares

1 8.6

A court order that makes someone give property back to a person wronged

1 7.4

A bank account where one person keeps and controls money for a named person who receives it after their death

1 8.3

A fund that keeps the same stocks or bonds selected at the start

Totten trust
  • Formal
1 9.1

A bank account set up so the money goes to a named person when the owner dies

A crime of illegally taking money or things someone gave you to look after and keeping them for yourself

Clifford trust
  • Specialized
9.9

A legal arrangement giving income to someone taxed less than the giver for at least ten years

active trust
  • Formal
7.3

A way of holding property where the person in charge must manage it and act for the people who benefit

express trust
  • Formal
7.0

An agreement people make on purpose to hold and manage money or property for someone, usually written down

involuntary trust
  • Specialized
9.9

A court decision giving property to someone who unjustly lost it

An investment that must hold only the stocks and bonds chosen when it was set up

resulting trust
  • Specialized
9.8

A court order making one person hold property for another when they meant to but did not make it legal

passive trust
  • Formal
8.0

A legal arrangement where someone holds property for another without any duties

Surface Forms

trust infinitive
trusted past
trusted past participle
trusting present participle
trusts third person singular

Etymology

The word trust was also used in shops to mean giving goods on credit, a helpful way to remember this is 'on trust' meaning to let someone 'owe' you money. This old use shows how trusting someone meant you believed they would pay later.