Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another: a fiduciary heir; a fiduciary contract.
- adj. Of or being a trustee or trusteeship.
- adj. Held in trust.
- adj. Of or consisting of fiat money.
- adj. Of, relating to, or being a system of marking in the field of view of an optical instrument that is used as a reference point or measuring scale.
- n. One, such as an agent of a principal or a company director, that stands in a special relation of trust, confidence, or responsibility in certain obligations to others.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Confident; steady; undoubting; unwavering; firm.
- Having the nature of a trust, especially a financial trust; pertaining to a pecuniary trust or trustee: as, a fiduciary power. Also fiducial.
- n. One who holds a thing in trust; a trustee.
- n. One who depends for salvation on faith without works; an Antinomian.
Wiktionary
- adj. law Related to trusts and trustees.
- adj. Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities.
- n. law One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
- n. theology One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm.
- adj. Holding, held, or founded, in trust.
- n. One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
- n. (Theol.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another)
- n. a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Etymologies
- From Latin fīdūciārius ("held in trust"), from fidūcia ("trust"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin fīdūciārius, from fīdūcia, trust; see fiducial. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Indeed, the word fiduciary comes from the Latin word fides, meaning faith.”
“The word "fiduciary" comes from the Latin word for trust.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy F. Koehn: Leaders and Fiduciaries
“Your editorial accurately depicts what a Labor Department proposal to change the regulatory agency's definition of the phrase "fiduciary" might to do the retirement-investment industry.”
The Wall Street Journal: Please Don't Make Something Worse That Is Working
“Every investment product or service ever devised by Wall Street and foisted upon the public demands what I refer to as a "fiduciary response.”
“Having been in fiduciary positions in which I was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars of the public's money, I've demonstrated proven ability.”
“The $146 billion joint bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund formalized earlier this week could take care of the country's short-term fiduciary problems, but major questions remain over how the country will look in the long-term, if it will ultimately be able to avoid default, and whether its problems will spread to other countries.”
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The Huffington Post: David Henry Sterry: Goldman Sachs Resort & Casino
“The solicitor-client relationship thus created is, however, overlaid with certain fiduciary responsibilities, which are imposed as a matter of law.”
“In addition, the Department of Labor is looking at tightening requirements for advisors who serve the retirement market, including by raising the definition of fiduciary.”
“While the act itself does not use the word fiduciary - meaning that advisers need to put their clients 'interests first - the United States Supreme Court has ruled that advisers do have a fiduciary duty under the act.”
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