Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - trust

(trusts, trusting, trusted) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you trust someone, you believe that they are honest and sincere and will not deliberately do anything to harm you. ‘I trust you completely,’ he said... He did argue in a general way that the president can’t be trusted. VERB: V n, V n • trusted After speaking to a group of her most trusted advisers, she turned her anger into action. ADJ: ADJ n 2. Your trust in someone is your belief that they are honest and sincere and will not deliberately do anything to harm you. He destroyed me and my trust in men... You’ve betrayed their trust... There’s a feeling of warmth and trust here. N-UNCOUNT: oft poss N in n 3. If you trust someone to do something, you believe that they will do it. That’s why I must trust you to keep this secret... VERB: V n to-inf 4. If you trust someone with something important or valuable, you allow them to look after it or deal with it. This could make your superiors hesitate to trust you with major responsibilities... I’d trust him with my life. VERB: V n with n, V n with n • Trust is also a noun. She was organizing and running a large household, a position of trust which was generously paid... N-UNCOUNT: also a N 5. If you do not trust something, you feel that it is not safe or reliable. She nodded, not trusting her own voice... For one thing, he didn’t trust his legs to hold him up... I still can’t trust myself to remain composed in their presence. VERB: V n, V n to-inf, V pron-refl to-inf 6. If you trust someone’s judgment or advice, you believe that it is good or right. I blame myself and will never be able to trust my instinct again. VERB: V n 7. If you say you trust that something is true, you mean you hope and expect that it is true. (FORMAL) I trust you will take the earliest opportunity to make a full apology... VERB: V that 8. If you trust in someone or something, you believe strongly in them, and do not doubt their powers or their good intentions. (FORMAL) He was a pastor who trusted in the Lord who lived to preach. VERB: V in n 9. A trust is a financial arrangement in which a group of people or an organization keeps and invests money for someone. The money will be put in trust until she is 18. N-COUNT: also in N 10. A trust is a group of people or an organization that has control of an amount of money or property and invests it on behalf of other people or as a charity. He had set up two charitable trusts... N-COUNT: supp N, oft in names 11. In Britain, a trust or a trust hospital is a public hospital that receives its funding directly from the national government. It has its own board of governors and is not controlled by the local health authority. N-COUNT: supp N, N n 12. see also trusting, unit trust 13. If something valuable is kept in trust, it is held and protected by a group of people or an organization on behalf of other people. The British Library holds its collection in trust for the nation... PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR, oft PHR for n 14. If you take something on trust after having heard or read it, you believe it completely without checking it. He was adamant that the allegations were untrue, so I took him on trust. PHRASE: V inflects 15. tried and trusted: see tried