entrust

[ en-truhst ]

See synonyms for: entrust entrusted entrusting entrustment on Thesaurus.com

verb (used with object)

to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust: We entrusted him with our lives.
to commit (something) in trust to; confide, as for care, use, or performance: to entrust a secret, money, powers, or work to another.

Origin of entrust

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

Sometimes in·trust [in-truhst] /ɪnˈtrʌst/ .

Other words from entrust

en·trust·ment, noun

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How to use entrust in a sentence

We are deeply grateful to him for entrusting us with his collection and for giving us the opportunity to engage our many audiences with it.
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That means the people entrusted to take care of your parents and grandparents are too often not in a position to keep them safe from a virus like this.
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The idea is to entrust every employee to decide for themselves.
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Magnum is an entrusted brand, with an irrefutably global reach.
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Those who are by definition free of the biases that come with living near or working with those entrusted to protect us.
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But last, I suspect they will have a sense of pride that they are the ones, the ones entrusted with this scary task.
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It seems only too clear the schools care more about their images than the students entrusted to them.
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They are really entrusted to the family motive operative in those strata.
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To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Accordingly, when in 1812 he planned his Russian campaign, he entrusted Ney with the command of the third corps.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Entrusted with sixty thousand men with orders to make a vast turning movement, his timidity spoiled the Emperor's careful plans.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Macdonald was entrusted with this duty, and was further required to cover the concentration of Championnet's army.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Doubtless I should have been entrusted with letters for your highness were not the city in some confusion owing to the fighting.
The Red Year | Louis Tracy

British Dictionary definitions for entrust

entrust

intrust

/ (ɪnˈtrʌst) /

verb(tr)

(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

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

Derived forms of entrust

entrustment or intrustment, noun

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