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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 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.