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- I UK [trʌst] / US
noun
Word forms "trust":
singular trust plural trusts1)a) [uncountable] a feeling of confidence in someone that shows you believe they are honest, fair, and reliabletrust in:Trust is an important issue between teenagers and their parents.
put/place (your) trust in someone/something:public trust in police officers
abuse/betray someone's trust (= treat someone badly or dishonestly, although they trusted you):Sumner placed considerable trust in his lawyer.
Jen had confided her secret to Mark, but he betrayed her trust.
b) confidence that something is safe, reliable, or effectiveYou have to be able to have trust in your backup system.
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Adjectives frequently used with trust
▪ complete, implicit, mutual, total Verbs frequently used with trust as the object ▪ build, earn, establish, gain, lose, win2) [uncountable] legal an arrangement in which a person or an organization manages someone else's money or propertyhold/place something in trust:The land will be held in trust by the Church.
a) [countable] money or property that someone manages for a person or an organization according to a legal arrangementb) [countable] an organization that manages money or property so that it can help other people or organizationsthe Jamaica National Heritage Trust
a charitable trust
See:3) [uncountable] a situation in which someone is made responsible for another person or thingput someone/something in the trust of someone:a position of trust (= a job in which you have a lot of responsibility and power):She put her children in the trust of strangers.
I don't think a teenager can be expected to hold such a position of trust.
4) [countable] mainly American a group of people or companies that work together to illegally control prices and limit competition in an industry•
II UK [trʌst] / US verb [transitive]
Word forms "trust":
present tense I/you/we/they trust he/she/it trusts present participle trusting past tense trusted past participle trustedto be confident that someone is honest, fair, and reliableBoth communities have to trust each other.
trust someone to do something:Politicians just can't be trusted.
trust someone with something:Can we trust you to give John the message?
I can always trust him with a secret.
a) to be confident that something is safe, reliable, or effectivetrust something to do something:Never trust cheap locks like these.
trust someone's judgment (= be confident that they can make good decisions):I wouldn't trust that ladder to hold me up.
I trust his judgment on legal issues.
b) to be confident that a fact or piece of information is true or accurateDon't trust anything Mr Davis tells you.
•I trust (that)
— spoken formal used for saying that you hope and expect that something is trueI trust that you've already completed the paperwork, Mrs Williams.
trust someone (to do something)
— spoken used for saying that someone has done something that you think is typical of them, especially something that annoys youTrust Tim to forget about our meeting!
Phrasal verbs:"Pete left the kitchen in a real mess." "Trust him!"
- trust in- trust to
English dictionary. 2014.