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.

A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it may be effected by putting a majority of their stock either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the name trust for the combination) or by transferring a majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying on a large business, as well as the doing away with competition. In the United States severe statutes against trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in many States, with elaborate statutory definitions.

Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.

A verbal or written arrangement whereby one person or persons (trustees) agree to take care of assets and to use those assets in particular ways for particular people (beneficiaries).

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.

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.

Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.

That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.

To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

Said of a subject that believes an object is secure. See Knowledge versus Belief; Trust .

the extent to which individuals believe that others mean what they say and will follow through on their commitments. Like reciprocity, sometimes trust is generalized to strangers and across a wide range of circumstances, and sometimes it is much more specific: e.g., extending to specific person or class of persons around specific action(s) in specific setting(s). People's predictions of whether others can be trusted is probably a measure of others trustworthiness, not the respondent's gullibility. Respondents reports about whether others could be trusted correlated fairly highly for example with the percentage of lost wallets distributed in those communities that were returned to their owners with the contents intact.

When you believe the ball will come back from a position very close to the gutter. "I am really trusting the ball."

See trust relationship.

Trust (1981) is an album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It is his fifth album, his fourth with the Attractions.

Trust is the sixth full-length album by Duluth, Minnesota slowcore band Low, released in 2002 on the Kranky label (see 2002 in music).

The lead-off single from Megadeth's album Cryptic Writings, Trust was released in the summer of 1997, and it received significant airplay and MTV rotation. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Considered a ballad, the song tells the story of relationships that have failed due to mutual dishonesty.

a large combination of business organizations, possibly tending towards a monopoly.

an investment strategy pioneered by John D. Rockefeller in which stockholders of several refining companies turned their shares over to Standard Oil. In return, they received trust certificates. The term came to be applied to all large corporations that controlled a substantial share of any given market. A form of business organization that created a single board to trustees to oversee competing firms, the term came to apply when any single entity had the power to control competition within a given industry, such as oil production.

A trust, sometimes inaccurately made synonymous with a monopoly, was a business management device designed to centralize and make more efficient the management of diverse and far-flung business operations. John D. Rockefeller organized the first trust, the Standard Oil Trust.