Definition of: trust

(trust) noun
1. A confident reliance on the integrity, veracity, or justice of another; confidence; faith; also, the person or thing so trusted.
2. Something committed to one's care for use or safekeeping; a charge; responsibility.
3. The state or position of one who has received an important charge.
4. A confidence in the reliability of persons or things without careful investigation.
5. Credit, in the commercial sense.
6. Law The confidence, or the obligation arising from the confidence, reposed in a person (called the trustee) to whom the legal title to property is conveyed for the benefit of another (the cestui que trust), that he will faithfully apply the property according to such confidence; also, the beneficial title or ownership of property of which the legal title is in another. ♦ Collateral adjective: fiducial.
7. The property or thing held in trust; also, the relation subsisting between the holder and the property so held.
8. A permanent combination, now illegal, for the purpose of controlling the production, price, etc., of some commodity or the management, profits, etc., of some business; also, a trust company. Compare CARTEL, CORNER, MONOPOLY, POOL², SYNDICATE.
9. Confident expectation; belief; hope.
10. Custody; care; keeping.
11. Obs. Trustworthiness.
—v.t.
1. To have trust in; rely upon.
2. To commit to the care of another; entrust.
3. To commit something to the care of: with with.
4. To allow to do something without fear of the consequences.
5. To expect with confidence or with hope.
6. To believe.
7. To allow business credit to.
—v.i.
8. To place trust or confidence; rely: with in.
9. To hope: with for.
10. To allow business credit.
—to trust to To depend upon; confide in.
—adjective Held in trust: trust property, trust money. [<ON traust, lit., firmness. Akin to TRUCE, TRUE.]
—trust′er noun
—trust′less adjective Synonyms (noun): assurance, belief, confidence, credence, expectation, faith, hope. See ASSURANCE, BELIEF, FAITH. Synonyms (verb): believe, commit, confide, hope. See COMMIT, LEAN¹. Antonyms: despair, disbelieve, discredit, distrust, doubt, mistrust, suspect.