entrust
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɹʌst/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌst
Verb
entrust (third-person singular simple present entrusts, present participle entrusting, simple past and past participle entrusted)
- (transitive) To trust to the care of.
- 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, , page 185:
- The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted[sic] to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results […]
- 2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN, page 1742:
- The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff.
- Can I entrust you with a secret?
- He entrusted me his daughter.
- He entrusts that task to her.
Derived terms
Translations
To trust to the care of
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