entrust

Sometimes in·trust

[en-truhst]

verb (used with object)

1. to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust.

   We entrusted him with our lives.

2. to commit (something) in trust to; confide, as for care, use, or performance.

   to entrust a secret, money, powers, or work to another.

entrust

/ ɪnˈtrʌst /

verb

1. (usually foll by with) to invest or charge (with a duty, responsibility, etc)

2. (often foll by to) to put into the care or protection of someone

Usage

It is usually considered incorrect to talk about entrusting someone to do something: the army cannot be trusted (not entrusted ) to carry out orders

Other Word Forms

• entrustment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of entrust¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; en- ¹ + trust

Example Sentences

Miles said he did not want to entrust the tickets to the postal system, so he arranged to meet Kai's customers in hotels across England to hand them over personally.

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“We entrust our public officials and law enforcement officers to uphold the law, not to break it,” L.A.

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He flies around Texas in a private jet, but it belongs to the much wealthier people entrusting him to handle their business.

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So Musselman took “a leap of faith,” entrusting things would be different with Rice.

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In his message to the Builders AI Forum at the Pontifical Gregorian University on Nov. 7, he wrote that AI, “like all human invention, springs from the creative capacity that God has entrusted to us.”

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Related Words

• allocate 
• assign 
• authorize 
• commend 
• commit 
• confer 
• confide 
• hand over 
• impose 
• invest 
• relegate 
• trust 
• turn over