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Meaning trust meaning

What does trust mean?
Definitions in simple English

trust

When you trust someone, you do not doubt them. You believe that someone is honest and will not cause harm. You believe you can rely on them. I trust all of my friends. We trust in the goodness of others.

trust

Trust is faith or belief in someone. Your parents have trust in you. Your money is put in a trust when you put your money under the control of someone else. The parents put the children's money in a trust at the bank until they reach the age of 18.

trust

(= swear, rely, bank) have confidence or faith in We can trust in God Rely on your friends bank on your good education I swear by my grandmother's recipes allow without fear something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary) he is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father (= believe) be confident about something I believe that he will come back from the war the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity (= reliance) certainty based on past experience he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun (= hope) expect and wish I trust you will behave better from now on I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly (= faith) complete confidence in a person or plan etc he cherished the faith of a good woman the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust (= entrust, intrust, commit) confer a trust upon The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret I commit my soul to God extend credit to don't trust my ex-wife; I won't pay her debts anymore (= confidence) a trustful relationship he took me into his confidence he betrayed their trust

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Conjugation trust conjugation

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trust · verb

Examples trust examples

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Simple sentences

You can trust him to keep his word.
Trust me!
She betrayed his trust.
We all trust you.
One can trust him.
I can't trust him.
He swore never to trust her again.
I really trust his ability.
Tom is one of the few people I can trust.
We trust him.
Do you trust me?
If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.
All you need to do is trust each other.
I don't necessarily trust translations.
All you can do is trust one another.
I have absolute trust in you.
I don't trust him any longer.
If I were you, I would trust her.
I trust that I can see you again.
The politician did not bother to apologize for betraying our trust.
You can trust John. He will never let you down.
If you trust such a fellow, you'll lose everything you have.
All you can do is trust in someone.
It was silly of you to trust them.
The firm has a great deal of trust in your ability.
Of course you can trust me. Have I ever given you a bum steer before?
I have no idea to what extent I can trust them.
I trust him to some extent.
You're the only person that I can trust.

Movie subtitles

I told you I trust you.
How can you trust them?
I don't think you should trust him.
Can't trust anybody.
I don't-- trust me.
All you need to do is trust me, My Lady.
Do you still not trust me?
We cannot trust the Coast Guard to investigate itself.
Y-you couldn't trust me with this one thing.
Trust me, I feel you.
When I die, can you remind me not to trust my body to that bloke?
Trust me, I understand.
Trust unfolds in a friendship, Christopher.
And just because a friendship becomes something else it doesn't mean the trust should unfold any faster.
Don't you trust me?
Trust me.
You trust her?
But trust me, he lost face and therefore the game.
We're trying to build trust with tribes loyal to our country but the encampment policy, which was adopted against the army's advice and gave you land that belonged to the Arabs, is turning the tribes against us and undermining our work.
He's the only one I trust.
We must trust him.
You can trust me. Among women, we can understand each other.
Believe me. Trust me.
Since we can't fully trust the United Nations, it would be better not to hand that over.
It's obvious we can't trust them.
An informant I've come to trust by the name of Lucy Davenport.
For the moment, we just need to put all our trust in him and not interfere.
You're very naive if you think I trust people.
Why should we trust you?
But that was only to get Frankie's trust when he came back.
If you don't trust me enough to let me have a lock on my door, the least you can do is knock. Mom!
You're supposed to trust me!
I trust you more than anyone!
They've had some, you know, misunderstandings and trust issues, but I think that is what, you know, makes Scott and Allison so great to watch, because they overcome all these odds.
And so who does she trust?
TO GET SOMEONE TO SIGN AWAY THEIR TRUST FUND.
ON A BEACH SOMEWHERE WITH HIS TRUST FUND.

News and current affairs

With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.
I trust that among the experts will be some who have pondered the underlying ethical question: how safe should we aim to be?
But, unfortunately, if this loss of trust persists, it could be costly for us all.
Without mutual trust, economic activity is severely constrained.
So if it is true that trust in financial institutions - and in the governments that oversee them - has been damaged by the crisis, we should care a lot, and we should be devising responses which seek to rebuild that trust.
In fact, the evidence for a crisis of trust is rather difficult to interpret.
Their financial trust index, based on a large-scale survey of financial decision-makers in American households, did show a sharp fall in trust in late 2008 and early 2009, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
So falling trust had real economic consequences.
Maybe we should trust each other more - but not too much.
Americans simply trust each other less than they did a generation ago.
Many neuroscientists believe that the mental-health effects of TV viewing might run even deeper than addiction, consumerism, loss of social trust, and political propaganda.
We can all leave the TV off more hours per day and spend that time reading, talking with each other, and rebuilding the bases of personal health and social trust.
LONDON - Public trust in financial institutions, and in the authorities that are supposed to regulate them, was an early casualty of the financial crisis.
Indeed, much economic research has demonstrated a powerful relationship between the level of trust in a community and its aggregate economic performance.
Surveys promoted by financial firms tend to show that trust in them has not diminished much, and that people continue to trust them even more than they do the National Health Service or the BBC.
Furthermore, the survey showed that declining trust was strongly correlated with financial behavior.
In other words, if your trust in the market and in the way it is regulated fell sharply, you were less likely to deposit money in banks or invest in stocks.
Fortunately, the latest survey, published in July this year, shows that trust in banks and bankers has begun to recover, and quite sharply.
It would seem that rebuilding confidence in the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission is economically more important than rebuilding trust in Citibank or AIG.
Researchers at the European University Institute in Florence and UCLA recently demonstrated that there is a relationship between trust and individuals' income.

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