Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The position or function of a trustee.
- n. Administration of a territory by a country or countries so commissioned by the United Nations.
- n. See trust territory.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The office or functions of a trustee.
Wiktionary
- n. The position or office of being a trustee.
- n. A United Nations trust territory or its administration.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The office or duty of a trustee.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the position of trustee
- n. a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations
Examples
“The red tape jungle was built into the Act to protect the Crown -- the people of Canada if you like, from the dangers inherent in trusteeship and to protect the Indians from being hoodwinked out of their land.”
“This idea of political trusteeship is one of the relatively rare inventions in the political field.”
“They call it "trusteeship" - the trade union equivalent, according to Steve Early, of martial law.”
“This obligation was referred to as the trusteeship model.”
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“At a later phase, the British Empire decided, with the approval of the League of Nations, to postpone or freeze (but not to annul!) the mandate decision (that is, the trusteeship) in eastern Palestine (current-day Jordan) and work to implement the decision in western Palestine only – that is, to settle Jews there urgently and densely.”
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“But a reluctance to jeopardize the idea of trusteeship has, I think, some effect on how the tribes view the Cobell litigation.”
“To segregation he opposed the idea of trusteeship, not for the benefit of the trustee but for the benefit of the ward.”
“It was the announcement of a programme in the interest of the country at large, with the idea of trusteeship strongly stressed.”
“But it was his devotion to the idea of trusteeship that held him in check, and the consciousness that in carrying out that trusteeship he had no right to permit his own passionate feelings to govern his public acts.”
“A trusteeship is the labor-movement equivalent of martial law.”
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