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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entrust.

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Examples

  • The company "entrusts" staffers to spend up to $2,000 on guests per incident without approval from their general managers.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dov Seidman 2011

  • The company "entrusts" staffers to spend up to $2,000 on guests per incident without approval from their general managers.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Michiel becomes involved when a local member of the underground entrusts him with a message, just before the Nazis uncover and shoot Michiel's friend.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Winter in Wartime Marshall Fine 2011

  • In this difficult and depressing parable, a master entrusts three servants with some money.

    Jonathan D. Fitzgerald: Occupy Pessimism Jonathan D. Fitzgerald 2011

  • Michiel becomes involved when a local member of the underground entrusts him with a message, just before the Nazis uncover and shoot Michiel's friend.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Winter in Wartime Marshall Fine 2011

  • "Steve" entrusts us with the responsibility of drafting "some kind of friendly and personal but firmly discouraging" rejection.

    MONDAY 2009

  • Wolfe was the first owner to sell minority stakes to his key people, President Mike Crowley and general manager Billy Beane, to whom he entrusts a lot of control.

    Why Baseball Isn't A Billionaires' Game 2011

  • This story entrusts the reader with a secret that even Olive will never know: that Henry's apparent simplicity is at least in part a form of defense; that throughout his life he will grapple with longings and secrets of his own, and understand more about his wife than she realizes.

    Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010

  • I am grateful to Mr. Soper; the difficulty of the tasks he entrusts to me, every moment of the day my thoughts absorbed by puzzles he presents me.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • This story entrusts the reader with a secret that even Olive will never know: that Henry's apparent simplicity is at least in part a form of defense; that throughout his life he will grapple with longings and secrets of his own, and understand more about his wife than she realizes.

    Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010

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