Definition of trust

• n. - Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
• n. - Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.
• n. - Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
• n. - That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
• n. - The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
• n. - That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
• n. - An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.
• n. - An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.
• a. - Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
• n. - To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
• n. - To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
• n. - To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
• n. - to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
• n. - To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
• n. - To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
• n. - To risk; to venture confidently.
• v. i. - To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
• v. i. - To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
• v. i. - To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.