trust
/tɹʌst/ sustantivo B2En español: confianza, crédito, fiar, consorcio
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. · He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.· to lose trust in someone
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- 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.
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. · 17th century, John Denham, Of Justice Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
- The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another. · I put the house into my sister's trust.
- An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
Plural trusts
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When the Shepherd returned to find his flock destroyed, he exclaimed: “I have been rightly served; why did I trust my sheep to a Wolf?”
“Oh, sire,” replied the minister, “we have no occasion to invent any; every day our desks are loaded with most circumstantial denunciations, coming from hosts of people who hope for some return for services which they seek to render, but cannot; they trust to fortune, and rely upon some unexpected event in some way to justify their predictions.”
“For my part, dear mother,” interposed Renée, “I trust your wishes will not prosper, and that Providence will only permit petty offenders, poor debtors, and miserable cheats to fall into M.
Observe,” said Villefort, smiling, “I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.
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