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

The project hired Cambodian couples and entrusted each with four to six infants and toddlers.

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Even his inner circle has been intimidated by his strategy of entrusting command of the army to his closest associates and giving Israeli operatives the job of training elite troops and his personal security detail.

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Ohtani instead entrusts the team’s public relations staff to decline interviews on his behalf.

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The family has built a reputation for being an equal creative thought partner to the artists whose work they are entrusted to frame.

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Emmanuel Macron's immediate recourse has been to entrust a member of his inner circle to pioneer a new approach.

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Related Words

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