public trust

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   a trust created for charitable or religious or educational or scientific purposes

   Synonymscharitable trust

   Broadertrust

Questions about public trust

What does public trust mean?

public trust means "a trust created for charitable or religious or educational or scientific purposes".

What is another word for public trust?

Close synonyms include charitable trust. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public trust a common word?

public trust is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.