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trusting
Verb
  • present participle of trust
trust
Noun
  • 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.
  • Trustworthiness, reliability. rare
  • The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  • The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another. law
  • 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. law
  • 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.
  • Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system. computing
Verb
  • 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. transitive
  • To risk; to venture confidently. archaic, transitive
  • To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. intransitive
  • To be confident, as of something future; to hope. intransitive
  • To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit. archaic, intransitive
Adjective
  • Secure, safe. obsolete
  • Faithful, dependable. obsolete
  • of or relating to a trust. law