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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • obsolete Faithful, dependable.
  • obsolete Secure, safe.

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Noun:

  • A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
  • Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
  • Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
  • Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
  • legal The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
  • rare Trustworthiness, reliability.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
  • intransitive To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  • intransitive To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
  • transitive To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
  • transitive To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  • transitive To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
  • transitive To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
  • transitive To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
  • transitive To risk; to venture confidently.
  • transitive to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.

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