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trusts

The correct spelling is trusts.

How to pronounce trusts

/tɹʌsts/
noun

IPA: /tɹʌsts/

Say it like: Tru-sts

The correct spelling is trusts. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. For example: "He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back."

Usage Examples

He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.

I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.

I put the house into my sister's trust.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
  2. 2.Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
  3. 3.Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
  4. 4.That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
  5. 5.That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

verb

  1. 1.To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
  2. 2.To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  3. 3.To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
  4. 4.To show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
  5. 5.To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.

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