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noun

/trʌst/

singular	trust
plural	trusts

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1
[uncountable] a feeling of confidence in someone that shows you believe they are honest, fair, and reliable
Trust is an important issue between teenagers and their parents.
trust in:
public trust in police officers
put/place (your) trust in someone/something:
Sumner placed considerable trust in his lawyer.
abuse/betray someone’s trust (=treat someone badly or dishonestly, although they trusted you):
Jen had confided her secret to Mark, but he betrayed her trust.
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1. a.
  confidence that something is safe, reliable, or effective
  You have to be able to have trust in your backup system.
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Collocations: trust
▪ complete, implicit, mutual, total
▪ build, earn, establish, gain, lose, win
2
[uncountable] legal an arrangement in which a person or an organization manages someone else’s money or property
hold/place something in trust:
The land will be held in trust by the Church.
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1. a.
  [countable] money or property that someone manages for a person or an organization according to a legal arrangement
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2. b.
  [countable] an organization that manages money or property so that it can help other people or organizations
  the Jamaica National Heritage Trust
  a charitable trust
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  See also National Trust
3
[uncountable] a situation in which someone is made responsible for another person or thing
put someone/something in the trust of someone:
She put her children in the trust of strangers.
a position of trust (=a job in which you have a lot of responsibility and power):
I don’t think a teenager can be expected to hold such a position of trust.
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4
[countable] mainly American a group of people or companies that work together to illegally control prices and limit competition in an industry
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phrase

take something on trust
to believe that something you have heard or read is true, although there is no proof
You’ll just have to take these figures on trust.
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