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trusting

Verb

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

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