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verb \ˈtrəst\Definition of TRUST
intransitive verb
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a : to place confidence : depend <trust in God> <trust to luck> b : to be confident : hope
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: to sell or deliver on credit
transitive verb
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a : to rely on the truthfulness or accuracy of : believe <trust a rumor> b : to place confidence in : rely on <a friend you can trust> c : to hope or expect confidently <trusts that the problem will be resolved soon>
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: to extend credit to
— trust·abil·i·ty \ˌtrəs-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun
— trust·able \ˈtrəs-tə-bəl\ adjective
— trust·er noun
— trust·ing·ly \ˈtrəs-tiŋ-lē\ adverb
— trust·ing·ness noun
See Examples of TRUST
- Working together is going to be difficult if you don't trust each other.
- “Are you sure this will work?” “Trust me. I know what I'm doing.”
- If you have a problem, tell your parent, teacher, or someone else you trust.
- I should never have trusted him.
- Their company is a trusted name in quality appliances.
- Don't trust everything you read.
- You can't trust the rumors.
- You should trust your instincts and do what you think is right.
- It is these questions which define the crisis confronting the CIA—an increasingly clear-eyed skepticism among legislators, commentators, the broad general public, and the rest of the world that American intelligence officials, when they are under pressure, can be trusted to call them as they see them. —Thomas Powers, New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2004
- Perhaps Hollywood can't be trusted to make Hollywood-style movies anymore. —Richard Corliss, Time, 13 Dec. 2004
- Whenever Eugenides presses on his themes this way, he bruises them; he stops trusting in his tale, apparently unaware that its very form incarnates its theme better than can any commentary. —James Wood, New Republic, 7 Oct. 2002
- The strong man, or the junta or the plutocracy could no more be trusted with a monopoly on power than the commissariat. —Kevin Baker, Harper's, May 2001
- Nagumo also trusted in the complicated battle plan for the Midway operation, which called for a diversionary raid on Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, to draw off American naval strength. —David M. Kennedy, Atlantic, March 1999
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Origin of TRUST
(see 1trust)
First Known Use: 13th century
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