What is the meaning of the word "trust"?

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  1. a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service copy to clipboard noun
    • they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly copy to clipboard
  2. confer a trust upon copy to clipboard verb
    • The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret copy to clipboard
  3. expect and wish copy to clipboard verb
    • I trust you will behave better from now on copy to clipboard
  4. extend credit to copy to clipboard verb
    • don't trust my exwife copy to clipboard
  5. have confidence or faith in copy to clipboard verb
    • We can trust in God copy to clipboard
  6. something such as property held by one party, the trustee, for the benefit of another, the beneficiary copy to clipboard noun
    • I wish I was the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by my parents. copy to clipboard
  7. the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others copy to clipboard noun
    • The experience destroyed their trust. copy to clipboard

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