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  1. 1. n. Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust. Source: opted
  8. 8. n. An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust. Source: opted
  9. 9. a. Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney. Source: opted
  10. 10. n. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. Source: opted
  11. 11. n. To give credence to; to believe; to credit. Source: opted
  12. 12. n. To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. Source: opted
  13. 13. n. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. Source: opted
  14. 14. n. To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. Source: opted
  15. 15. n. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods. Source: opted
  16. 16. n. To risk; to venture confidently. Source: opted
  17. 17. v. i. To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. Source: opted
  18. 18. v. i. To be confident, as of something future; to hope. Source: opted
  19. 19. v. i. To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit. Source: opted

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