n. n. Reliance on the veracity, integrity, justice, friendship, or other virtue or sound principle of another; a firm reliance on promises or on laws or principles; confidence; belief.n. Confident expectation; assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent as if present or actual; hope.n. That on which one relies or in which he confides; ground of reliance, confidence, or hope.n. Credit.n. Confidence in the ability and intention of one who does not pay ready money to pay at some definite or indefinite time in the future: as, to buy or sell on trust.n. In law: A confidence reposed in a person by making him the nominal owner of property which he is to hold, use, or dispose of for the benefit of another.n. The right on the part of such other to enjoy the use or the profits or to require a disposal of the property for his benefit.n. The relation between persons and property which arises when the legal ownership is given to one person, called the trustee, and the beneficial enjoyment or advantages of ownership are given or reserved to another, the cestui que trust or beneficiary.n. That which is committed or intrusted to one, as for safe-keeping or use.n. Something confided to one's faith; a charge given or received in confidence; something which one is bound in duty and in honor to keep inviolate; a duty incumbent on one.n. Specifically, in mod. com. usage, an organization for the control of several corporations under one direction by the device of a transfer by the stockholders in each corporation of at least a majority of the stock to a central committee or board of trustees, who issue in return to such stockholders respectively certificates showing in effect that, although they have parted with their stock and the consequent voting power, they are still entitled to dividends or to share in the profitsāthe object being to enable the trustees to elect directors in all the corporations, to control and suspend at pleasure the work of any, and thus to economize expenses, regulate production, and defeat competition.n. The state of being confided in and relied on; the state of one to whom something is intrusted.n. The state of being confided to another's care or guard; charge.n. Keeping; care.n. Trustworthiness.n. A trust is also said to be executed when the trustee has performed his entire duty.n. When the instrument creating a trust in land has the effect by virtue of the statute of uses of vesting the entire estate in the intended beneficiary, the trust is said to be executed by the statute.n. A deed conveying property to a creditor in trust to sell and pay himself and restore the residue: a kind of mortgage.n. Synonyms and Faith, credence, assurance, dependence, expectation.Held in trust: as, trust property; trust money.To place or repose confidence in (a person); rely upon; depend upon.To believe; credit; receive with credence, as a statement, assertion, or the like.To intrust: with with before the object confided.To commit, consign, or allow with confidence; permit to be in some place, position, or company, or to do some particular thing, without misgiving or fear of consequences: as, to trust one's self to another's guidance.To give credit to; supply with goods or something of value in the expectation of future payment.To entertain a lively hope; feel sure; expect confidently: followed by a clause.To repose confidence; place faith or reliance; rely: with on or in.To give credit for something due; sell on credit: as, to trust recklessly.An obsolete spelling of trussed, preterit and past participle of truss.