Trust vs. Confidence
Trustnoun
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
Trustnoun
Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
Trustnoun
Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
Trustnoun
That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
Trustnoun
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
Trustnoun
(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
Trustnoun
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
Trustnoun
(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
Trustnoun
(legal) 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.
Trustnoun
A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
Trustnoun
(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
Trustverb
(transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
Trustverb
(transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Trustverb
(transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
Trustverb
(transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
Trustverb
(transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
Trustverb
(transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
Trustverb
To risk; to venture confidently.
Trustverb
(intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
Trustverb
(intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
Trustverb
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
Trustadjective
(obsolete) Secure, safe.
Trustadjective
(obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
Trustadjective
(legal) of or relating to a trust.
Trustnoun
Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
Trustnoun
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.
Trustnoun
Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
Trustnoun
That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
Trustnoun
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
Trustnoun
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
Trustnoun
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.
Trustnoun
An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary.
Trustnoun
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.
Trustadjective
Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
Trustverb
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
Trustverb
To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Trustverb
To hope confidently; to believe; - usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
Trustverb
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
Trustverb
To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
Trustverb
To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
Trustverb
To risk; to venture confidently.
Trustverb
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
Trustverb
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
Trustverb
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
Trustnoun
something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary);
Trustnoun
certainty based on past experience;
Trustnoun
the trait of trusting; of believing in the honesty and reliability of others;
Trustnoun
a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service;
Trustnoun
complete confidence in a person or plan etc;
Trustnoun
a trustful relationship;
Trustverb
have confidence or faith in;
Trustverb
allow without fear
Trustverb
be confident about something;
Trustverb
expect and wish;
Trustverb
confer a trust upon;
Trustverb
extend credit to
Confidencenoun
Self-assurance.
Confidencenoun
A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
Confidencenoun
Information held in secret.
Confidencenoun
(dated) Boldness; presumption.
Confidencenoun
The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; - formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.
Confidencenoun
That in which faith is put or reliance had.
Confidencenoun
Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
Confidencenoun
The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; - often with self prefixed.
Confidencenoun
Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
Confidencenoun
Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
Confidencenoun
Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
Confidencenoun
Giving occasion for confidence.
Confidencenoun
freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities;
Confidencenoun
a feeling of trust (in someone or something);
Confidencenoun
a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable;
Confidencenoun
a trustful relationship;
Confidencenoun
a secret that is confided or entrusted to another;
Confidencenoun
the feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something
Confidencenoun
the state of feeling certain about the truth of something
Confidencenoun
a feeling of self-assurance arising from an appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities
Confidencenoun
the telling of private matters or secrets with mutual trust
Confidencenoun
a secret or private matter told to someone under a condition of trust
Confidence
Confidence is a state of being clear-headed either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Confidence comes from a Latin word 'fidere' which means therefore, having self-confidence is having trust in one's self.
