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reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.

confident expectation of something; hope.

confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit.

a person on whom or thing on which one relies.

the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.

the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed.

charge, custody, or care.

something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping, as an office, duty, or the like; responsibility; charge.

Law.��

1. a fiduciary relationship in which one person (the trustee) holds the title to property (the trust estate or trust property) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary).

2. the property or funds so held.

Commerce.��

1. an illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, a group of people who have assumed the authority to supervise the affairs of the constituent companies, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc.

2. any large industrial or commercial corporation or combination having a monopolistic or semimonopolistic control over the production of some commodity or service.

Archaic.��reliability.

to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something (usually followed by in orto ).

to have confidence; hope.

to sell merchandise on credit.

to have trust or confidence in; rely or depend on.

to believe.

to expect confidently; hope (usually followed by a clause or infinitive as object).

to commit or consign with trust or confidence.

to permit to remain or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences.

to invest with a trust; entrust or charge with the responsibility for something.

to give credit to (a person) for goods, services, etc., supplied.