Entrust
verb
To give someone a thing or a duty for them to take care of.
I entrusted my car to my friend while I was away.
Often appears as...
- entrust someone with something
- entrust something to someone
verb
To put something valuable or important under someone else's care.
The film director entrusted the script to the lead actor.
Often appears as...
- entrust to safekeeping
- entrust wealth
verb
To give authority to someone because you trust them.
The client entrusted the lawyer to represent him in court.
Often appears as...
- entrust legal affairs
- entrust with authority
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Formal
Technical
verb
To give someone a thing or a duty for them to take care of.
I entrusted my car to my friend while I was away.
Often appears as...
- entrust someone with something
- entrust something to someone
verb
To put something valuable or important under someone else's care.
The film director entrusted the script to the lead actor.
Often appears as...
- entrust to safekeeping
- entrust wealth
verb
To give authority to someone because you trust them.
The client entrusted the lawyer to represent him in court.
Often appears as...
- entrust legal affairs
- entrust with authority
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Trust Level
Use 'entrust' when showing high levels of trust, often involving personal or valuable items.
I will only entrust my family heirloom to someone I deeply trust.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Custody
'Entrust' implies a temporary transfer of care or control, not permanent ownership.
She entrusted her plants to me for the weekend.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility Transfer
When entrusting duties, it indicates delegating with confidence in someone's capabilities.
The manager entrusted the project to his most competent team member.
Pro Tip 1/3Trust Level
Use 'entrust' when showing high levels of trust, often involving personal or valuable items.
I will only entrust my family heirloom to someone I deeply trust.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Custody
'Entrust' implies a temporary transfer of care or control, not permanent ownership.
She entrusted her plants to me for the weekend.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility Transfer
When entrusting duties, it indicates delegating with confidence in someone's capabilities.
The manager entrusted the project to his most competent team member.
Pro Tip 1/3Trust Level
Use 'entrust' when showing high levels of trust, often involving personal or valuable items.
I will only entrust my family heirloom to someone I deeply trust.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Custody
'Entrust' implies a temporary transfer of care or control, not permanent ownership.
She entrusted her plants to me for the weekend.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility Transfer
When entrusting duties, it indicates delegating with confidence in someone's capabilities.
The manager entrusted the project to his most competent team member.
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The past, present and...
who look at applications and decide, using the standard that Congress has entrusted us to implement and enforce, whether a particular product should come to market, because the marketing of that product and the words of our law would be appropriate for the protection of the public health.
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The tale of the doctor...
he wouldn’t entrust his son to those who passed judgment on human life. He ventured deeper into the tangled thicket. Here in the darkest part of the woods, the father made out a third figure. Sunken eyes stared out of its gaunt face, which broke into a crooked smile.
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Matthieu Ricard: How to...
If you have more consideration for others, you will have a caring economics, where finance is at the service of society and not society at the service of finance. You will not play at the casino with the resources that people have entrusted you with.
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What does it mean to be...
Financial and political factors can also prevent them from traveling by standard routes. This means they can usually only travel by land or sea, and may need to entrust their lives to smugglers to help them cross borders.
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Rediscovering ourselves...
waters from your fountain and the wind left and my soul wept and said what have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you in this powerful poem by Antonio Machado you all know exactly
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Boomslang vs. Chameleon...
entrusted the secret of eternal life to the chameleon as a gift for mankind but the chameleon was too slow and death entered our world just as it enters the chameleons world here 'no
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Chase a Wild Buffalo...
to me ranching is about living with the land I feel a sense of honour of being entrusted with its care because I live on it and I'm part of it it's part of me
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Boomslang vs. Chameleon...
has no idea that it itself is being hunted an African legend has it that the gods entrusted the secret of eternal life to the chameleons as a gift for
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More Than a Grand Canyon...
A Grand Canyon rafting trip is the adventure of a lifetime. It can take two weeks to raft its entire length. Entrusting their fate to the river,
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Frog Defends Eggs From...
the other have visited him and entrusted him with their offspring some are now almost ready to hatch there are several clutches on the leaf
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The past, present and...
who look at applications and decide, using the standard that Congress has entrusted us to implement and enforce, whether a particular product should come to market, because the marketing of that product and the words of our law would be appropriate for the protection of the public health.
Video examples
The tale of the doctor...
he wouldn’t entrust his son to those who passed judgment on human life. He ventured deeper into the tangled thicket. Here in the darkest part of the woods, the father made out a third figure. Sunken eyes stared out of its gaunt face, which broke into a crooked smile.
Video examples
Matthieu Ricard: How to...
If you have more consideration for others, you will have a caring economics, where finance is at the service of society and not society at the service of finance. You will not play at the casino with the resources that people have entrusted you with.
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What does it mean to be...
Financial and political factors can also prevent them from traveling by standard routes. This means they can usually only travel by land or sea, and may need to entrust their lives to smugglers to help them cross borders.
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Rediscovering ourselves...
waters from your fountain and the wind left and my soul wept and said what have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you in this powerful poem by Antonio Machado you all know exactly
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Boomslang vs. Chameleon...
entrusted the secret of eternal life to the chameleon as a gift for mankind but the chameleon was too slow and death entered our world just as it enters the chameleons world here 'no
Video examples
Chase a Wild Buffalo...
to me ranching is about living with the land I feel a sense of honour of being entrusted with its care because I live on it and I'm part of it it's part of me
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Boomslang vs. Chameleon...
has no idea that it itself is being hunted an African legend has it that the gods entrusted the secret of eternal life to the chameleons as a gift for
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More Than a Grand Canyon...
A Grand Canyon rafting trip is the adventure of a lifetime. It can take two weeks to raft its entire length. Entrusting their fate to the river,
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Frog Defends Eggs From...
the other have visited him and entrusted him with their offspring some are now almost ready to hatch there are several clutches on the leaf
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Zhang Zhidong
Chinese Politician
If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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John F. Kennedy
American President
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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Jon Favreau
American Actor
There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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Kathryn Stockett
American Novelist
What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
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Jean de La Fontaine
French Poet
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Tom Graves
American Politician
Realizing the responsibility I've been entrusted with... it's humbling. Very humbling.
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Beppe Grillo
Italian Comedian
We've entrusted our lives to people who know nothing about life.
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Plautus
Roman Playwright
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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Zhang Zhidong
Chinese Politician
If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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John F. Kennedy
American President
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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Jon Favreau
American Actor
There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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Kathryn Stockett
American Novelist
What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
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Jean de La Fontaine
French Poet
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Tom Graves
American Politician
Realizing the responsibility I've been entrusted with... it's humbling. Very humbling.
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Beppe Grillo
Italian Comedian
We've entrusted our lives to people who know nothing about life.
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Plautus
Roman Playwright
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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