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Then the trust closes down his factory and throws his men out of employment, lowers the price of goods to run out others who have not entered the trust, and the people who get goods cheap say a trust is the noblest work of God.

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  1. noun Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
  2. noun Custody; care.
  3. noun Something committed into the care of another; charge.
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  • As of December 31, 2008, the amount per share available upon liquidation of the trust was approximately US$7. 8815. —  News
  • A good example of exploiting our trust is the grandparent scam, where a victim gets a phone call supposedly from a desperate grandchild asking for money. —  ScamBusters.org
  • The implications of the trust were awe-inspiring. —  Century of Light
  • It has conquered, and long will it be before the trust is allowed to perish! —  Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
  • The first spontaneous motion of Truth and Love, acting through Christian Science on my roused consciousness, banished at once and forever the fundamental error of faith in things material; for this trust is the unseen sin, the unknown foe,--the heart's untamed desire which breaketh the divine commandments. —  Retrospection and Introspection
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English truste, perhaps from Old Norse traust, confidence; see deru- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also, in a sense now differentiated, tryst, q. v.; from Middle English trust, trost, also trist, tryst, trest (not found in Anglo-Saxon, and in part of Scandinavian origin); = OFries. trāst, comfort, = Middle Dutch, Dutch troost, comfort, consolation, = Middle Low German trōst, consolation, confidence, trust, =Old High German Middle High German trōst, German trost, trust, help, protection, = Gothic (Moesogothic) trausti, covenant, treaty, = Icelandic traust, trust, protection, shelter, confidence, reliance, = Swedish Danish tröst, comfort, consolation; cf. Old Saxon getrōst, a following, Middle Latin trustis, a pledge, a following; Icelandic traustr, adjective, safe, strong, firm; akin to Anglo-Saxon treówe, etc., true, treówian, believe, trow, from the Teutonic √ tru: see true, trow.
  2. Also, in a sense now differentiated, tryst, q. v.; from Middle English trusten, trosten, also tristen, trysten, tresten, traisten (from Icelandic) = OFries. trāsta = Middle Dutch, Dutch troosten = Middle Low German trōsten = Old High German trōsten, Middle High German trœsten, German trösten, comfort, console, = Icelandic treysta, reflexive, trust to, rely on, = Swedish trösta, comfort, = Danish tröste, comfort, fortröste, confide; from the noun.
 

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