trustee
- noun
- /trʌsˈti/
- Specialized
- Sarah and her lawyer had suggested making me the trustee over her trust.
- board of trustees
- appoint trustees
- elect trustees
Who would be the, the trustees of, of this project?
- Who would be the, the trustees of, of this project?
- You know, they, we spell out all the trustee responsibilities.
- First, thanks to the trustees of this university.
- And we began a long review of that process as the trustees undertook it.
- It's a trust with its own trustee and everything and it has an agreement.
- And it gets all into the rights of the trustee to start the foreclosure process.
- Other types of fiduciaries, you know, guardians, trustees.
- However, even assigning A trustee would likely take months for something as complicated as Trump's case.
- If you can be removed by the trustees, you are vulnerable or whatever mechanism exists for replacing the the top brass.
- We had an article by the head of the Wharton School Board of, of Trustees, the head, the president of it saying, don't give money to universities.
- So you could put money in a trust and the trustee would be responsible for paying out that money over time to say your children are your grandchildren.
Examples
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Acknowledgments: The author thanks the Brandt Foundation and its trustees for their continued support.
Academic text (2017) -
It's a trust with its own trustee and everything and it has an agreement.
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I'll make you trustee right now.
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First, thanks to the trustees of this university.
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The trustees seem to think we need it.
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As the foundation's sole trustee, she was required to handle a wide variety of problems.
Fiction book (1997) -
Yeah, I, you know, I'm the founder and trustee of my daughter's foundation.
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With the board of trustees invested in our proposal, we were ready to begin the transformation.
Academic text (2013) -
She's a museum trustee.
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As the newly appointed trustee of the family estate, he is responsible for managing all the assets.
Synonyms
A person who manages property, money and daily operations for someone or an organization
A person who must manage someone else's money or property and act in their best interest
A person, place, or group that keeps things safe for others
A company that manages money and property for people or groups, including estates after death
A company, often a bank, that manages money and property for other people
A person who shares responsibility for managing a trust with other people
A person or organization that holds and spends money for a specific purpose
Compounds
- Formal
A savings account where one person manages money for someone who gets it when the account holder dies
- Formal
A legal relationship where one person must act in another person's best interest
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trustee comes from trust, which means 'confidence' or 'property held for someone', and the ending -ee, which shows a person who is the receiver of an action, as in employee. So a trustee is 'someone trusted' to manage money or property for other people.