Trustee

Definition: Trustee

Trustee

Noun

1. A person to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit.

2. Members of a governing board.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trustee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Finance

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Trustee

Consignee

Noun: consignee, trustee, nominee, committee.

Possessor

Trustee; holder; of the legal estate; mortgagee.

Treasurer

Noun: treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist; money changer; (merchant).

Crosswords: Trustee

A Trustee of the Law (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Permanent Trustee Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Library Trustee Guidelines (reference)

• Raising of Money Thirty-Five Essentials Every Trustee Should Know (reference)

• The Case of the Troubled Trustee (reference)

• Trustee for a City: Ralph Lowell of Boston (reference)

• Trustee from the Toolroom (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Pension Scheme Trustee (reference)

• School Trustee - Saskatchewan School Trustees Association (reference)

• Trustee (reference)

• Trustee Quarterly (reference)

• Trustee Voice (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

To this I reply, The people shall be judge; for who shall be judge whether his trustee or deputy acts well, and according to the trust reposed in him, but he who deputes him, and must, by having deputed him, have still a power to discard him, when he fails in his trust? If this be reasonable in particular cases of private men, why should it be otherwise in that of the greatest moment, where the welfare of millions is concerned, and also where the evil, if not prevented, is greater, and the redress very difficult, dear, and dangerous? (Second Treatise of Government)

Germany renounces in favour of the League of Nations, in the capacity of trustee, the government of the territory defined above. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Nigeria

The law requires that such groups name a board of trustees, place a notice of the group's intent to organize in three nationwide newspapers, and send trustee information to the CAC. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Where insolvency is determined, the court appoints an interim trustee. (references)

Croatia

Either the trustee or debtor is entitled to file a reorganization plan. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "trustee": security of trustee status ♦ trustee account ♦ Trustee process ♦ trustee security ♦ Trustee stock. Additional references.

Beginning with "trustee": trustee-beneficiary relation, trustee-heir, trustee-like.

Ending with "trustee": co-trustee.

Albanian

kujdestar (care-taker, chaperon, custodian, Guardian, keeper, Proctor, Shepherd, tutelary, warden), administrues i besuar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قام بمهام الوصي, ‏عهد إلى, ‏القيم (custodian, valuable, warden), ‏الوصي, ‏إعتمد (bank on, build, count on, depend, expect, lean, reckon, reckon on, rely, repose), ‏إداري (administrative, departmental, executive, manager, managerial), ‏أمن (assure, be safe, believe, feel, indemnify, insure, peace, safeness, safety, security, underwrite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съм попечител, ставам попечител, предавам в попечителство, попечител (conservator, curator, custodian, sponsor). (various references)

Chinese 

受託人 , �"托人. (various references)

Czech

poruèník (curator, custodian, Guardian, tutor). (various references)

Danish

værdipapir,i hvilket umyndiges midler kan anbringes (blue chip, first-class papers, gilt-edged security, security of trustee status, trustee security), guldrandet papir (blue chip, bond issued by the State, first-class papers, gilt-edged security, gilt-edged stock, Government bond, Government stock, governmental bond, public bonds, public sector bond, security of trustee status, State bond, trustee security), forvaltnings-og forvaringsorgan for investeringsfonde (manager and trustee of unit trusts). (various references)

Dutch

wettelijke beheerder (administrator), curator (guardian). (various references)

Farsi 

متولی (Custodian, Proctor), تولیت کردن , امین (Amen, Honest, Trustworthy, Trusty), امانت دار (Depository). (various references)

Finnish

uskottu mies (administrator, fiduciary, guardian). (various references)

French

curateur. (various references)

German

Verwalter (administrator, bailiff, caretaker, custodian, manager, manciple, steward), Kurator (curator, Guardian, registrar). (various references)

Greek 

επιμελητήσ (caretaker, commissary, quartermaster, tutor), επίτροποσ (commissary, commissioner, procurator, syndic, vestry man), θεματοφύλακασ (bailee, depositary, fiduciary), θεματοφύλαξ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ממו� �" (appointee, charge d'affaires, nominee, officer in charge, superior), אפיטרופוס (administrator, custodian, executor, procurator). (various references)

Hungarian

meghatalmazott (accredited, commissioned, commissioner, delegate, mandatory, proxy, substitute). (various references)

Indonesian

wali (executor). (various references)

Italian

curatore (curator, editor). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

管財人 (administrator, receiver), 商議�"� (counselor), 保管人 (custodian). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうぎい�" (counselor), ほか�"に�" (custodian), か�"ざいに�" (administrator, receiver). (various references)

Korean 

수탁자 (Bailee, Consignee). (various references)

Manx

treishteilagh (confiding, hopeful, trustful, trustworthy, trusty). (various references)

Pig Latin

usteetray

Portuguese

curador (administrator, committee, conservator, curator, custodian, depository, healer). (various references)

Romanian

tutore (custodian, Guardian, tutor), membru în consiliul de administrare la societãţi comerciale, epitrop (Guardian), curator (fiduciary), administrator (administrator, bailiff, director, economist, governor, housekeeper, janitor, land agent, manager, master, receiver, reeve, steward, suitor, superintendent, warden). (various references)

Russian 

попечитель (care giver, fiduciary). (various references)

Scottish

cileadair (agent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

staratelj (custodian, guardian, keeper, tutor), poverenik (commissioner, fiduciary). (various references)

Spanish

fideicomisario (trust), ecónomo (Guardian, manciple), depositario (bailee, depositary, depository, repository), administrador legal (administrator), administrador (administrator, bailee, bailiff, manager, steward). (various references)

Swedish

förmyndare (curator, custodian, guardian), förvaltare (administrator, bailiff, factor, manager, steward, trustees), förtroendeman (fiduciary, steward). (various references)

Turkish

yediemin (garnishee, receiver), mutemet (bailee, fiduciary, pay clerk, paymaster), mütevelli, emanetçi (bailee, consignee, depositary, depository, depot). (various references)

Turkmen 

hossar (guardian, patron). (various references)

Ukrainian

член правління, опікун (administrator, committee, curator, custodian, fiduciary), попечитель (curator). (various references)

Welsh

ymddiriedolwr. (various references)

inquisitor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trustee": trusteed, trusteeing, trustees, trusteeship, trusteeships. (additional references)

Words ending with "trustee": cotrustee. (additional references)

Words containing "trustee": cotrustees. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trustee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thrusty, Trezeta, trister, Tristia, trousee, truesteel, truistic, truste, trusteed, trusten, trustie, trustle, trustor, trute, Trutex, Trutype, tryste, Tuesdee. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: retest, retuse, setter, street, suttee, tester, truest, tutees, utters.

-2 letters: ester, reest, reset, reuse, steer, stere, strut, sturt, terse, trees, trets, trues, trust, tutee, utter.

-3 letters: erst, rees, rest, rete, rets, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, seer, sere, sett, stet, suer, suet, sure, tees, test, tets, tree, tret, true, tuts, user.

-4 letters: ere, ers, ree.

+1 letter: burettes, curettes, outsteer, reutters, textures, trusteed, trustees, upsetter, utterers.

+2 letters: austerest, brunettes, butteries, cotrustee, entrusted, eructates, metestrus, mutterers, outsteers, putterers, rebutters, restitute, roulettes, scuttered, shuttered, soubrette, sputtered, sputterer, stuttered, stutterer, superette, tessiture, umbrettes, unfetters, untethers, upsetters, usherette.

+3 letters: barquettes, briquettes, butteriest, butterless, buttressed, buttresses, certitudes, cotrustees, courgettes, croquettes, curettages, destructed, deuterates, elutriates, flutterers, frutescent, menstruate, outsteered, outwrestle, pirouettes, putrescent, quartettes, rectitudes, reluctates, resolutest, restituted, restitutes, retextures, sestertium, soubrettes, spluttered, splutterer, sputterers, squattered, stutterers, superettes, superstate, textuaries, texturizes, trebuchets, trebuckets, trumpeters, trusteeing, turgescent, tutelaries, tutoresses, understate, uninterest, usherettes, utterances.