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1. Have confidence or faith in
   "We can trust in our government"
    
2. Allow without fear
    
3. Be confident about something
   "I trust that he will come back from the war";
   - believe
    
4. Expect and wish
   "I trust you will behave better from now on";
   - hope, desire
    
5. Confer a trust upon
   "The messenger was trusted with the general's secret";
   - entrust, intrust [archaic], confide, commit
    
6. [archaic] (chiefly archaic) extend credit to
   "don't trust my ex-wife; I won't pay her debts anymore"

1. Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
   "he is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father"
    
2. Certainty based on past experience
   "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun";
   - reliance
    
3. The trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others
   "the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity";
   - trustingness, trustfulness
    
4. A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
   "they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly";
   - corporate trust, combine, cartel
    
5. Complete confidence in a person or plan etc
   "the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust";
   - faith
    
6. A trustful relationship
   "he betrayed their trust";
   - confidence

Sounds like: troopers, tro, trust, t

Derived forms: trusts, trusting, trusted

Type of: allow, anticipate, belief, believe, belongings, certainty, consortium, countenance, expect, friendly relationship, friendship, give, hand, holding, lend, let, loan, mateship [Austral, NZ], pass, pass on, permit, pool, property, reach, syndicate, trait, turn over

Antonym: distrust

Encyclopedia: Trust, North Carolina