Trust I Money Trʌst People Extra Examples Mutual

• our partnership is based on trust.
• this is a relationship built on mutual trust.
• it has taken years to earn their trust.
• we worked hard to gain the trust of local people.

trust

1. the belief that somebody/something is good, sincere, honest, etc. and will not try to harm or trick you
• Our partnership is based on trust.
• This is a relationship built on mutual trust.
• It has taken years to earn their trust.
• We worked hard to gain the trust of local people.
• Talking openly with your team helps to build trust.
• Her trust in him was unfounded.
• If you put your trust in me, I will not let you down.
• I want to thank all those people who have placed their trust in me.
• She will not betray your trust (= do something that you have asked her not to do).
• He was appointed to a position of trust (= a job involving a lot of responsibility, because people trust him).
• This is a serious breach of trust.
• The company has to earn the trust and confidence of consumers again.
• There is a lack of trust between the two countries.

Extra Examples

• They had little trust for outsiders.
• We need to restore public trust.
• I will do all I can do to deserve your trust.
• It's good that you kept her trust.
• The President needs to rebuild his personal trust with the electorate.
• Does the plan have the trust and cooperation of the workers?
• They have placed great trust in him as a negotiator.
• This girl does not exactly inspire trust.
• This requires a certain level of trust among the community's members.
• We have absolute trust in the teachers.
• efforts to promote mutual trust between nations
• the fragile trust that existed between them
2. the belief that something is true or correct or that you can rely on it
• We place so much trust in computers that it gets a little scary.
• Voters need to have trust in the voting system.
• Public trust in science is harmed by inaccurate journalism.
• If I were you, I would not place too much trust in their findings.

Extra Examples

• a campaign to build consumer trust in the quality of dairy products
• They followed the instructions in blind trust that all would turn out well.
3. an arrangement by which an organization or a group of people has legal control of money or property that has been given to somebody, usually until that person reaches a particular age; an amount of money or property that is controlled in this way
• SEE ALSO blind trust
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/blind-trust
• He set up a trust for his children.
• The money will be held in trust until she is 18.
• Our fees depend on the value of the trust.

Extra Examples

• His father put the money in trust for him until he was 21.
• a publicly traded real estate investment trust
4. an organization or a group of people that invests money that is given or lent to it and uses the profits to help a charity
• SEE ALSO hospital trust
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hospital-trust
• a charitable trust

Extra Examples

• They ran the trust as a non-profit making concern.
• The trust owns the land and the buildings.
5. a group of companies that work together illegally to reduce competition, control prices, etc.
• anti-trust laws
6. being taken care of by somebody
• The family pet was left in the trust of a neighbour.
7. to believe what somebody says even though you do not have any proof or evidence to show that it is true

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old Norse traust, from traustr ‘strong’; the verb from Old Norse treysta, assimilated to the noun.