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"TRUSTS" is a plural of: trust. |
Date "TRUSTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of trusts, foretells indifferent success in trade or law. If you imagine you are a member of a trust, you will be successful in designs of a speculative nature. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Crosswords: TRUSTS |
| English words defined with "TRUSTS": Andrew Carnegie ♦ Carnegie ♦ To help up, Transcendental function, trust busting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TRUSTS": anti trust legislation ♦ Baby ♦ Calomel, CANNON, Conspirators, correspondent bank, CROESUS ♦ director of major or capital gifts, DIRECTOR, FUNDS DEVELOPMENT ♦ ESTATE PLANNER ♦ historic pricing ♦ LAWYER, PROBATE ♦ Medical Savings Accounts ♦ Payment limitation, Pride of the Morning ♦ ROCKEFELLER ♦ School, Section 515 loans ♦ TAFT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TRUSTS": Mustahfiz. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I mean this face doesn't look like it trusts anybody. (Barney Miller; writing credit: Danny Arnold) I can see it's dangerous for you, but if the government trusts me, maybe you could. (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash) Ah, it's as simple as this: the President trusts Russia, and the American people don't. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) I believe in justice but, nobody trusts me. (Die xue shuang xiong; writing credit: John Woo) | |
Clever | The person who says he trusts no one should include himself. (references; author: unknown) | |
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![]() | "Revenue reform" train stopped by "vested interests," "local issues," "trusts," and other poles] / Coffin. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The mother of the trusts -- H.G. Havemeyer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The trusts. Hard times? : Well, they make me laugh ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Senate that trusts build / L.M. Glackens. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Geikie | An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trusts him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants. |
Grover Cleveland | The trusts and combinations -- the communism of pelf. . . . |
John Dryden | He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. |
William Shakespeare | He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath. |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were. |
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Business | Most distribution companies are owned by Trusts. (references) | |
Property within those areas can be leased through thirty-year renewable trusts held by Mexican banks. (references) | ||
NHS Trusts and PCGs are not required to purchase from NHS Supplies; however, NHS Supplies reports that over 98 percent of NHS Trusts do business with the organization. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Jordan | The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Trusts manages Islamic institutions and the construction of mosques. (references) |
Egypt | Upon agreement with Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda, in 1996 the Minister of Awqaf, Hamdy Zaqzouq, who is responsible for administering religious trusts, established a joint committee to address a dispute with the Coptic Orthodox Church that originated in 1952. At that time, the Government seized approximately 1,500 acres of land from the Church and transferred title to the Ministry of Awqaf. (references) | |
Economic History | Singapore | Investment income generated by the trusts is also exempted from tax. (references) |
Political Economy | SOUTH AFRICA | Capital gains tax became effective from October 1, 2001. Effective rates for individuals will range from zero to 10.5 percent, retirement funds 6.25 percent, unit trusts 7.5 percent, life insurers from 6.25 to 15 percent, and companies 15 percent. (references) |
Trade | Dominican Rep | According to CEDOPEX, it trusts the quantity and the price exporters declare. (references) |
Costa Rica | There are also 30 investment and retirement funds or trusts run by both state and private commercial banks and the state insurance company. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Besides that, it should be repugnant to the vital principles of our Government virtually to exclude from public trusts talents and virtue unless accompanied by wealth. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | But we must do more than break up trusts and monopolies after they have begun to strangle competition. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | For the world trusts us with power, and the world is right. |
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| "TRUSTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 89.00% of the time. "TRUSTS" is used about 1,090 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 89% | 970 | 7,515 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 10.91% | 119 | 29,501 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,090 | N/A |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TRUSTS": state-trusts. | |
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| Language | Translations for "TRUSTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | forvaltnings-og forvaringsorgan for investeringsfonde (manager and trustee of unit trusts), andelsbevis udstedt af investeringsforening (unit of unit trusts). (various references) | |
Dutch | deelbewijs van gemeenschappelijk beleggingsfonds (unit of unit trusts). (various references) | |
French | part de fonds commun de placement (unit of unit trusts), organisme de gestion et de dépôt de fonds communs de placement (manager and trustee of unit trusts). (various references) | |
German | vertraut (close, companionably, confides, conversant, conversantly, familiar, familiarly, intimate, Matey, near, well known), traut (close, cozy, familiar). (various references) | |
Italian | quota parte (lawful share of succession, unit of unit trusts), quota di fondo comune di investimento (unit of unit trusts), parte di un fondo d'investimento (unit of unit trusts). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uststray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TRUSTS": distrusts, entrusts, intrusts, mistrusts, unitrusts. (additional references) | |
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"TRUSTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: traust, Trista, Tristes, Tristessa, tristesse, tristi, tristis, trsut, trusso, truste, turst. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TRUSTS" (pronounced tru"sts) |
| 6 | t r u" s t s | distrusts. |
| 5 | -r u" s t s | crusts, rusts, thrusts. |
| 4 | -u" s t s | adjusts, busts, disgusts, dusts, gusts. |
| 3 | -s t s | abolitionists, abortionists, activists, agonists, agronomists, analysts, anarchists, anesthesiologists, animists, antagonists, anthropologists, apologists, aquarists, archaeologists, archivists, armrests, arrests, arsonists, artists, assists, atheists, attests, ballasts, balloonists, baptists, bassists, beasts, behaviorists, bequests, bicyclists, biologists, blasts, boasts, boosts, botanists, breakfasts, breasts, broadcasts, bursts, capitalists, cardiologists, careerists, cartoonists, castes, casts, catalysts, centralists, centrists, chartists, chemists, chests, chloroplasts, clarinetists, coasts, cohosts, colonialists, colonists, columnists, communists, conformists, conquests, conservationists, consists, consumerists, contests, contexts, contrasts, costs, crests, criminologists, cultists, cyclists, cysts, dentists, dermatologists, digests, divests, druggists, ecologists, economists, editorialists, elitists, endocrinologists, enlists, enthusiasts, entomologists, environmentalists, epidemiologists, ethicists, evangelists, exhausts, exhibitionists, exists, extremists, fascists, fasts, fatalists, feasts, federalists, feminists, fetishists, finalists, firsts, fists, flavorists, florists, forecasts, forests, frosts, fundamentalists, futurists, generalists, geneticists, geologists, ghosts, guests, guideposts, guitarists, gymnasts, gynecologists, harpists, harvests, headrests, herbalists, hobbyists, hoists, hosts, humanists, humorists, hygienists, idealists, ideologists, illusionists, imperialists, impressionists, individualists, industrialists, infests, insists, institutionalists, instrumentalists, interests, internationalists, internists, interventionists, invests, isolationists, jests, joists, journalists, jurists, kremlinologists, lambastes, lampposts, lasts, leftists, linguists, lists, lobbyists, locusts, loyalists, lyricists, machinists, manifests, masts, medalists, meteorologists, militarists, mists, modernists, molests, monarchists, monetarists, moralists, motorcyclists, motorists, nationalists, naturalists, nests, neurologists, newscasts, nihilists, nonconformists, novelists, numismatists, nutritionists, obstructionists, oncologists, ophthalmologists, opportunists, optimists, optometrists, orthodontists, orthopedists, outbursts, outcasts, outposts, pacifists, paleontologists, panelists, pastes, pasts, pathologists, persists, pessimists, pests, pharmacists, philanthropists, physicists, pianists, poltergeists, populists, posts, pragmatists, preexists, preservationists, priests, propagandists, protagonists, protectionists, protests, provosts, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, publicists, purists, quests, racists, radiologists, rainforests, rapists, realists, receptionists, recidivists, reformists, Reinvests, requests, reservationists, reservists, resists, rests, retests, revisionists, revolutionists, rightists, ripostes, roasts, satirists, schists, scientists, secessionists, secularists, segregationists, seismologists, semifinalists, separatists, signposts, socialists, sociologists, soloists, specialists, spiritualists, statists, sternposts, strategists, stylists, suffragists, suggests, supremacists, survivalists, symbolists, tastes, technologists, telecasts, televangelists, terrorists, testes, tests, texts, theorists, therapists, toasts, toothpastes, tourists, toxicologists, traditionalists, twists, typists, ultranationalists, unionists, urologists, vests, violinists, virologists, waists, wastes, wrists, yeasts. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: struts, sturts. | |
| Words within the letters "r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: rusts, strut, sturt, truss, trust. | |
-2 letters: rust, ruts, tuts. | |
-3 letters: rut, tut, uts. | |
-4 letters: us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: stratus, strunts, thrusts. | |
+2 letters: buttress, distrust, entrusts, intrusts, mistrust, outserts, rustiest, scutters, shutters, sputters, stardust, startups, statures, stratous, stratums, stutters, surtouts, tourists, trustees, trusters, trusties, trustors, turistas, tutoress, upstarts. | |
+3 letters: altruists, antirusts, austerest, crustiest, destructs, distrusts, futurists, instructs, lustrates, metestrus, mistrusts, mistruths, mistutors, naturists, obstructs, outbursts, outskirts, outsmarts, outstares, outstarts, outsteers, outstrips, robustest, saturants, saturates, shortcuts, splutters, squatters, starburst, stardusts, strumpets, strutters, sturdiest, substrata, substrate, subtracts, sultriest, tessitura, tessiture, thrusters, thrustors, trustiest, trustless, turnspits, ultraists, unitrusts, upsetters, upstaters, upthrusts. | |
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