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say it: truhst
trust is a noun and verb meaning "something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)". It is pronounced /ˈtɹʌst/ — truhst. It carries 12 recorded senses.
something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
“he is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father”
the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others
“the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity”
a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
“they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly”
a trustful relationship
“he took me into his confidence”
“he betrayed their trust”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trust come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.