Definition of "trust" []

• Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing. (noun)
• Custody; care. (noun)
• Something committed into the care of another; charge. (noun)
• The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one: violated a public trust. (noun)
• One in which confidence is placed. (noun)

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• "The fathers of the English _church_, forbade selling on trust at a higher price than for ready money, which was the same thing in effect as to _forbid trust_; and this was doubtless one of the great objects those wise and pious men had in view; for they were fathers in legislation and morals, as well as in religion."
• "The fathers of the Church (I mean the ancient ones), and also the canons of the Church, forbade selling on trust at a higher price than for ready money, which was in effect to forbid _trust_; and this, doubtless, was one of the great objects which those wise and pious men had in view; for they were fathers in legislation and morals as well as in religion."
• "Donald Cressey penned the term "trust violator" in his research on the behavior and motivation of embezzlers."