to trust
- verb
- /trʌst/
- Archaic
- After three long years of scandal, archaeology is no longer trusted as a science in the Basque Country.
Examples
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Still, people could blindly trust neither governments nor churches to defend and enforce those principles.
Academic text (2014) -
I can be trusted now.
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People need to know I can be trusted.
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Is the man to be trusted?
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Willie has proved once more that he cannot be trusted.
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See, I got it off the street from this guy for $200, and he said he'd trust me for it until Friday.
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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.
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The shopkeeper agreed to let her take the goods home on credit, trusting that she would pay him back later.
Synonyms
Give something to someone for a short time and expect it back
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
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 bank account where one person holds and manages money for another person who will get it later
- Specialized
A legal arrangement that holds money or property to support charities and public causes, not for private profit
- Specialized
A legal plan that lets you keep control of your money and property while alive and avoid court after death
- 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 company that manages money and property for people or groups, including estates after death
- Archaic
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
- Formal
A trust made while the owner is alive to manage money or property for other people
- Archaic
Government actions to break up very large companies that control a market
- Specialized
An arrangement where the person who creates it keeps control and pays tax on the income it earns
- Specialized
A company, often a bank, that manages money and property for other people
- Specialized
A legal plan where a person in charge decides how much money each named person receives
- Archaic
A group of companies that join to control prices and limit competition
- UK
A managed fund that puts many people's money together to buy different investments
- Formal
A plan made in a will that holds and manages money or property after someone dies
- Specialized
A bank savings account you control now that gives the money to a named person after your death
- Formal
A legal right to property that the law finds from people's actions when none was written
- Specialized
A company that pools money to buy a set of stocks and bonds, with shares investors can sell back
- Formal
An arrangement set up by people on purpose, often in writing, to control money and property
- Formal
A legal plan that gives someone money but keeps others in charge to protect the money from their debts
- Specialized
An agreement where shareholders give their right to vote to other people but keep their shares
- Formal
A court order that makes someone give property back to a person wronged
- Formal
A bank account where one person keeps and controls money for a named person who receives it after their death
- Specialized
A fund that keeps the same stocks or bonds selected at the start
- Formal
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
- Specialized
A legal arrangement giving income to someone taxed less than the giver for at least ten years
- 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
- 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
Surface Forms
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.