entrust
Origin of entrust
1- Sometimes in·trust [in-truhst] /ɪnˈtrʌst/ .
Other words from entrust
- en·trust·ment, noun
Words Nearby entrust
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How to use entrust in a sentence
At a dire moment for the humanities, when a STEM major looks to many students like the only viable path to repaying their college loans, her colleagues have entrusted her to revitalize the increasingly underfunded, under-enrolled department.
Netflix’s Sharp Satire The Chair Throws Sandra Oh Into the Politicized Powder Keg of Higher Ed | Judy Berman | August 19, 2021 | Time“Today we come to you, Lord, to entrust the soul of Haiti to your hands,” Jean-Mary said.
Haitians in the United States fear for homeland following assassination | Brittany Shammas, David Suggs, Maria Sacchetti | July 7, 2021 | Washington PostWeed shoppers use THC percentages like nutritional labels, purchasing products based on their THC content, yet the lab system entrusted with measuring the compound is vulnerable to corruption.
The bills entrust the FTC to help define rules for how they would be put into practice.
As the years passed and dozens more were entrusted to her care, Owens said she felt that it was what she was meant to do.
This woman has fostered 81 infants over three decades: ‘I remember them all’ | Cathy Free | May 6, 2021 | Washington Post
“People entrust firearms with their lives,” Kloepfer told me while explaining his biometric gun.
Here Come the Smart Guns: Will New Jersey Soon Have to Sell Safer Guns? | Brandy Zadrozny | September 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJohn will not be around much longer and so he must entrust the child to their safe-keeping.
The IOC members must possess tremendous faith to entrust the Games to Sochi in the face of such obstacles!
So, no, I would not entrust my money to them, because it is clear that they do not feel any fiduciary responsibility to me.
Poll Results: Our Readers Won't be Goldman Clients | Noah Kristula-Green | March 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTYet whenever a new threat arose, those questions would be set aside, and Congress would entrust the bureau with new powers.
Still, he said, if France desired to entrust her independence and glory to one man she could choose none better than Bonaparte.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonI have not been able to read these pages, and have been compelled to entrust their revision to other eyes and other hands.
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi | Giacomo LeopardiIf you are obliged to entrust it to a strange nurse, you shall make her a reasonable allowance.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)It was to their credit that they sought out godly men, to whom they might entrust the cure of souls.
East Anglia | J. Ewing RitchieHe found there would be little difficulty in prevailing on Major Bridgenorth to entrust him with the guardianship of his daughter.
Peveril of the Peak | Sir Walter Scott
British Dictionary definitions for entrust
intrust
/ (ɪnˈtrʌst) /
(usually foll by with) to invest or charge (with a duty, responsibility, etc)
(often foll by to) to put into the care or protection of someone
usage For entrust
Derived forms of entrust
- entrustment or intrustment, noun
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