0%

ALL meanings of trusting

trust·ing
T t
  • adjective trusting believing in others' honesty 1
  • adjective trusting Law. of or relating to trusts or a trust. 1
  • noun trusting reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. 1
  • noun trusting confident expectation of something; hope. 1
  • noun trusting confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust. 1
  • noun trusting a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust. 1
  • noun trusting the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted. 1
  • noun trusting the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed: a position of trust. 1
  • noun trusting charge, custody, or care: to leave valuables in someone's trust. 1
  • noun trusting something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping, as an office, duty, or the like; responsibility; charge. 1
  • noun trusting Law. a fiduciary relationship in which one person (the trustee) holds the title to property (the trust estate or trust property) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary). the property or funds so held. 1
  • noun trusting Commerce. an illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, a group of people who have assumed the authority to supervise the affairs of the constituent companies, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc. any large industrial or commercial corporation or combination having a monopolistic or semimonopolistic control over the production of some commodity or service. 1
  • noun trusting Archaic. reliability. 1
  • verb without object trusting to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something (usually followed by in or to): to trust in another's honesty; trusting to luck. 1
  • verb without object trusting to have confidence; hope: Things work out if one only trusts. 1
  • verb without object trusting to sell merchandise on credit. 1
  • verb with object trusting to have trust or confidence in; rely or depend on. 1
  • verb with object trusting to believe. 1
  • verb with object trusting to expect confidently; hope (usually followed by a clause or infinitive as object): trusting the job would soon be finished; trusting to find oil on the land. 1
  • verb with object trusting to commit or consign with trust or confidence. 1
  • verb with object trusting to permit to remain or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences: He does not trust his children out of his sight. 1
  • verb with object trusting to invest with a trust; entrust or charge with the responsibility for something: We trust her to improve the finances of the company within the year. 1
  • verb with object trusting to give credit to (a person) for goods, services, etc., supplied: Will you trust us till payday? 1
  • idioms trusting in trust, in the position of being left in the care or guardianship of another: She left money to her uncle to keep in trust for her children. 1
  • adjective trusting A trusting person believes that people are honest and sincere and do not intend to harm him or her. 0
  • adjective trusting that trusts; trustful 0
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?