trust

🇺🇸 /trʌst/ 🇬🇧 /trʌst/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP3000Oxford3000CEFR-B1
noun
B2

Confidence in someone's honesty or ability.

She has a lot of trust in her doctor.

B2

The acceptance that something is true or real.

There is a growing trust in alternative medicine.

R

A legal arrangement where assets are managed by one party for the benefit of another.

The inheritance was placed in a trust for the children.

R

An organization that manages funds to support a charity.

The charity set up a trust to help the homeless.

R

A group of companies working together in a way that is against the law.

The company was fined for forming a trust to control the market.

verb
B2

To have confidence in someone or something.

I trust her judgment completely.

B2

To believe that something is true or will happen.

You can trust that we will deliver on time.

R

To hope for a certain outcome.

I trust we will meet again soon.

translation

n. Confidence in someone's honesty or ability.; The acceptance that something is true or real.; A legal arrangement where assets are managed by one party for the benefit of another.; An organization that manages funds to support a charity.; A group of companies working together in a way that is against the law.
v. To have confidence in someone or something.; To believe that something is true or will happen.; To hope for a certain outcome.

Word Forms

3rd Present trusts
Past trusted
Perfect trusted
Progressive trusting
Plural trusts