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