trust

Definitions

• Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
• Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
• Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
• That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
• That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
• (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
• The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
• (legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
• (legal) 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 group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
• (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.