n (legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
n A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
n (computing): trust from an operating system against an application or user that results in access rights
v (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
v (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
v (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
v (transitive) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
v (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
v (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
v (transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
v (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
v (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
v (intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.