trust

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
2. (countable, uncountable) Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
3. (countable, uncountable) Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
4. (countable, uncountable) That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
5. (countable, uncountable) That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
6. (countable, rare, uncountable) Trustworthiness, reliability.
7. (countable, uncountable) The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
8. (countable, uncountable) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
9. (countable, uncountable) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
10. (countable, uncountable) A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
11. (countable, uncountable) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
2. (intransitive) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
3. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
4. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
5. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
6. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
7. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
8. (intransitive, with-to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
9. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
10. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
11. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Intj

Ellipsis of trust me.

Adj

1. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
2. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
3. of or relating to a trust.

Synonyms

confidence

faith

believe

reliance

rely on

confide

entrust

belief

rely

credit

have confidence in

hope

have faith in

believe in

depend on

charge

confide in

credence

dependence

commit

count on

trustworthiness

combine

depend

intrust

have faith

corporate trust

bank

🏦

cartel

responsibility

consign

deposit

faithfulness

have confidence

trustfulness

reliability

care

loyalty

swear

expect

conviction

trust in

creed

commend

tenet

repose

respect

count

🔢

reckon

entrusting

Translations

confiance

vertrouwen

confiar

fiducia

Vertrauen

confianza

vertrauen

faire confiance

foi

confiança

εμπιστεύομαι

fe

fé

confiança

εμπιστοσύνη

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹʌst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: trust

Cognate with Old Norse: traust

Inherited from Old English: *trust

Cognate with Middle High German: getrüste

Cognate with Danish: trøst

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Traast

Cognate with Western Frisian: treast

Cognate with Dutch: troost

Cognate with German: Trost

Cognate with Gothic: trausti

In summary

From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (“alliance, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.