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trust

  • noun
  • trŭst

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

Example

“He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.”

Other meanings

  1. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

  2. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

    “I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.”

Synonyms

  • faith

Related words

  • antitrust
  • entrust
  • intrust
  • overtrust
  • trustbuster
  • trustbusting
  • trustification
  • trustify
  • trustlet
  • trustlike
  • trustman
  • trustmark

Example sentences

  • “How do we know we can trust you?”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

Word history

From Middle English "trust" (trust, trost).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “trust” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.