trust

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To believe that someone is honest and will not harm you.

   You can trust her with any secret.

2. 2
   noun

   The belief that someone is honest and reliable.

   He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.

3. 3
   verb

   To hope and expect something to be true.

   I trust you will behave better from now on.

4. 4
   noun

   Money or property looked after by one person for the benefit of another.

   She receives money from a trust set up by her parents.

Common collocations

• complete trust Adjective + noun
• build trust Verb + noun
• earn trust Verb + noun
• gain trust Verb + noun
• lose trust Verb + noun
• mutual trust Adjective + noun
• public trust Adjective + noun
• testamentary trust Adjective + noun

From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, sola…

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