trust

  1. Noun.  Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
  2. Noun.  Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
  3. Noun.  Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
  4. Noun.  (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
  5. Noun.  (legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
  6. Noun.  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.
  7. Noun.  (computing) : trust from an operating system against an application or user that results in access rights.
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
  9. Verb.  (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  10. Verb.  (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
  11. Verb.  (transitive) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
  12. Verb.  (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
  13. Verb.  (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
  14. Verb.  (transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
  15. Verb.  (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  16. Verb.  (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
  17. Verb.  (intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
  18. Adjective.  (obsolete) Secure, safe.
  19. Adjective.  (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.

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