The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
(law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
(law) An estatedevised 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 accessrights of a user of a computer system.
Verb
(transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
(transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
(transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
(transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
(transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
(transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
(archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
(intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
(intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
(archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
