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Definition: Breach Of Trust |
Breach Of TrustNoun1. Violation (either through fraud or negligence) by a trustee of a duty that equity requires of him. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostasy; (tergiversation); nonobservance. |
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Crosswords: Breach Of Trust |
| English words defined with "breach of trust": Barratry. (references) |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | To prepare such an assembly as this, and endeavour to set up the declared abettors of his own will, for the true representatives of the people, and the law-makers of the society, is certainly as great a breach of trust, and as perfect a declaration of a design to subvert the government, as is possible to be met with. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Expression using "breach of trust": breach of trust with fraudulent intent. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
breach of trust | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "breach of trust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | varojen kavallus (embezzlement, misappropriation of funds), luottamusaseman väärinkäyttö (embezzlement, misappropriation of funds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | abus de confiance (breach of confidence, breach of fiduciary duty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vertrauensbruch (betrayal of trust), Missbrauch des Vertrauens (embezzlement, misappropriation of funds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "פרת אמו ים (infidelity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hitszegés (perfidy, treason), bizalommal való visszaélés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | abuso di fiducia (embezzlement, misappropriation of funds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 背任罪 , 背任 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はいに"ざい, はいに". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eachbray ofay usttray abuso de confiança (embezzlement, misappropriation of funds, misuse of blank signature, misuse of document signed in blank). (various references) нарушение доверенным лицом своих обязательств. (various references) trolöshet mot huvudman (embezzlement, misappropriation of funds), förskingring (defalcation, embezzlement, misappropriation, peculation). (various references) güveni kötüye kullanma (breach of faith, misappropriation), emanete hıyanet (misappropriation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-f-h-o-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: subtracter, turboshaft. | |
-4 letters: barouches, broachers, brochures, carburets, fractures, frotteurs, frustrate, obfuscate, obturates, orchestra, outcheats, retroacts, tabourers, tabourets, tetrarchs, theocrats, turbocars. | |
-5 letters: abettors, aborters, abutters, barouche, batchers, betroths, botchers, braceros, brachets, broacher, broaches, brochure, brothers, butchers, cabestro, cabresto, carburet, carouser, cathouse, charters, chatters, chaufers, courters, couthest, creators, crofters, curators, factures, farceurs, farouche, farthest, forbears. | |
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