TRUST

defined...

noun

1.

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

2.

confident expectation of something; hope.

3.

confidence in the certainty of future payment for propertyor goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.

4.

a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.

5.

the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.

6.

the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person inwhom confidence or authority is placed: a position of trust.

7.

charge, custody, or care: to leave valuables in someone's trust.

8.

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

9.

Archaic . reliability

verb (used without object)

13.

to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something(usually followed by in or to ): to trust in another's honesty;trusting to luck.

14.

to have confidence; hope: Things work out if one only trusts.

15.

to sell merchandise on credit.

verb (used with object)

16.

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

17.

to believe.

18.

to expect confidently; hope (usually followed by a clause orinfinitive as object): trusting the job would soon be finished;trusting to find oil on the land.

19.

to commit or consign with trust or confidence.

20.

to permit to remain or go somewhere or to do somethingwithout fear of consequences: He does not trust his children outof his sight

Verb phrase: trust to, to rely on; trust: Never trust to luck!

Idiom: in trust, in the position of being left in the care or guardianship of another: She left money to her uncle to keep intrust for her children.

Synonyms
1. certainty, belief, faith. Trust, assurance, confidence imply afeeling of security.

Trust implies instinctive unquestioning belief in and reliance upon something: to have trust in one's parents.

Confidence implies conscious trust because of good reasons,definite evidence, or past experience: to have confidence in the outcome of events.

Assurance implies absolute confidence andcertainty: to feel an assurance of victory.