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Traust

December 3, 2008

trust

Etymology
From Old Norse traust

Pronunciation:

  • IPA: /tɹʌst/

Noun

trust (plural trusts)

  1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

  2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

  3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
    I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
  4. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
  5. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
  6. A group of businessmen or traders organized for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.

hope

Pronunciation

Noun

hope (countable and uncountable; plural hopes)

  1. (uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
    I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
  2. (countable) The actual thing wished for
  3. (countable)

    A person or thing that is a source of hope

    We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
  4. (in Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good

    But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (1Cor. 13:13)


Conclusion

Confidence
Dependence
Hope
futuregood
source of hope

Words are much easier to write and read than they are to actually put into practice.

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