Trust vs. Society

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

Societynoun

(countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.

Societynoun

(countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

Societynoun

(countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

Societynoun

(uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.

Societynoun

(uncountable) High society.

Societynoun

A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

Societynoun

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

Societynoun

Connection; participation; partnership.

Societynoun

A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

Societynoun

The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

Societynoun

Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

Societynoun

an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

Societynoun

a formal association of people with similar interests;

Societynoun

the state of being with someone;

Societynoun

the fashionable elite

Societynoun

the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community

Societynoun

the community of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations

Societynoun

a specified section of society

Societynoun

the aggregate of people who are fashionable, wealthy, and influential, regarded as forming a distinct group in a community

Societynoun

a plant or animal community

Societynoun

an organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity

Societynoun

the situation of being in the company of other people

Society

A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members.