Definition of "entrust" []

• To give over (something) to another for care, protection, or performance: "He still has the aura of the priest to whom you would entrust your darkest secrets” ( James Carroll). (verb-transitive)
• To give as a trust to (someone): entrusted his aides with the task. See Synonyms at commit. (verb-transitive)

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• "Yet that is precisely what the world will be doing if we once again entrust funds to Hamas terrorists and their Iranian puppet masters."
• "Washington could prepare a “victory dispatch” in the loftiest use of the term and entrust the delivery of the paper to a staff officer he wished particularly to honor."
• "It was noted that Dr. Robert Winterode decided to "entrust" the patients with axes and tools to complete the construction."