Entrust

  

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Entrust

Definitions: Entrust

Entrust

Verb

1. To confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God".

2. Put into the care or protection of someone; "He left the decision to his deputy"; "leave your child the nurse's care".

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

Date "entrust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

 

Synonyms: Entrust

Synonyms: commit (v), confide (v), intrust (v), leave (v), trust (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Entrust

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Commission

Verb: commission, delegate, depute; consign, assign; charge; intrust, entrust; commit, commit to the hands of; authorize; (permit).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Entrust

English words defined with "entrust": confiding. (references)
Specialty definitions using "entrust": SobrinoWalking Stick. (references)

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Modern Usage: Entrust

DomainUsage

Screenplays

God? Who said you'd be God? What impertinence! We are humans. We were created to be terminal interfaces of God. It is the same for you, who were once humans. Man cannot become God. We can only entrust ourselves to God. (Xenogears; writing credit: Masato Kato; Tetsuya Takahashi)

She's precious, and I entrust her to you. (Exorcist II: The Heretic; writing credit: William Goodhart)

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

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Commercial Usage: Entrust

DomainTitle

References

  • Entrust Technologies Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • ENTRUST TECHNOLOGIES INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Historic Usage: Entrust

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of international conventions existing or hereafter to be agreed upon, the Members of the League: (a) will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women, and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend, and for that purpose will establish and maintain the necessary international organisations; (b) undertake to secure just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control; (c) will entrust the League with the general supervision over the execution of agreements with regard to the traffic in women and children, and the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs; (d) will entrust the League with the general supervision of the trade in arms and ammunition with the countries in which the control of this traffic is necessary in the common interest; (e) will make provision to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

It would nevertheless be wrong and imprudent to entrust the secret knowledge or experience of the atomic bomb, which the United States, Great Britain, and Canada now share, to the world organization, while it is still in its infancy. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Entrust

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

On leaving the convent, he took in his own hands, and would not entrust to any assistant, the little box, the key of which he always had about him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Entrust

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Foreign Certification Authority (CA) service providers and PKI vendors try to enter the market such as VeriSign (U.S.), Baltimore (Ireland), Entrust Technologies (Canada), Sonera Smart Trust (Finnland), RSA Laboratories (US). From time to time there are tenders (to test the market and prices) issued by telecom companies (MATAV), banks (GIRO, OTP) and the government but in most of the cases, the tenders are declared unsuccessful. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

Duma Speaker Gennadiy Seleznev, former President of Ingushetiya Ruslan Aushev, and human rights NGO's concerned with IDP's criticized the plan, charging that the Interior Ministry could not address adequately the needs of internal refugees, and that it was inappropriate to entrust law enforcement organs with humanitarian programs for internal refugees. (references)

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

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Speeches: Entrust

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Entrust

"Entrust" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.76% of the time. "Entrust" is used about 66 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)75.76%5048,117
Lexical Verb (base form)22.73%1590,616
Noun (singular)1.52%1339,140
                    Total100.00%66N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Entrust

CountryName
USA

Entrust Technologies Incorporated

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Entrust

Expressions using "entrust": entrust oneself entrust smb. with smth. entrust smth. to smb.. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Entrust

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

entrust

56

entrust mortgage

18

credit entrust federal union

15

entrust technology

7

entrust pki recruitment

6

administration entrust

6

entrust inc

5

entrust capital

3

entrust solo

2

credit entrust union

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Entrust

Language Translations for "entrust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

vertrouwe stel in (confide, have, have confidence in, have faith, have faith in, trust), aanbetrou (confide, have confidence in, trust). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

i lë në dorëzim (intrust), besoj (accredit, believe, calculate, commit, confide, consign, credit, guess, hold, intrust, rely, Trow, trust, understand, ween). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فوض (accredit, authorise, authorize, commission, delegate, deputize, empower), ‏ودع (check, commend, commit, consign, keep, keeping, let, let go, lodge, part from, pay, see off, send off, store), ‏عهد به إلى, ‏أتمن (trust). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

възлагам (allocate, allot, apportion, assign, commission, depute, detail, endue, indue, put on, rest, set), предавам на грижите на, поверявам (bequeath, commend, commit, confide, consign, disembosom, intrust, recommend, unbosom, whisper). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

, 托付 , "託 (trust), "托 (Bailed, Bailing, intrust, Intrusted, Intrusting). (various references)

   

Czech

  

svìřit (commit, consign, leave, refer, vest), povìřit (accredit, authorize, commission). (various references)

   

Danish

  

Domstolen kan efter eget valg betro enkeltpersoner,grupper,bureauer,kommissioner eller organer den opgave at foretage en sagkyndig undersoegelse (authority, body, committe or other organisation it chooses with the task of holding an inquiry or giving an expert opinion, the Court may entrust any individual). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

opdragen (celebrate, dedicate, devote, tell, to prime), opdracht geven (tell), belasten met (tell). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

konfidi (confide, have confidence in, trust), komisii (tell). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

líta til (confide, have confidence in, trust), líta á (confide, have confidence in, have faith, have faith in, trust), lata (allow, cause, dedicate, deliver, devote, furnish, get, leave, let, make, release, supply, tell). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

واگذارکردن (Abandon, Abdicate, Admit, Assign, Cede, Concede, Give, Relegate, Remise, Surrender, Title, Transfer, Vest, Yield), سپردن (Award, Commit, Confide, Consign, Depute, Reposit, Surrender), بامانت سپردن (Bail). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

luottaa (confide, count upon, depend upon, have confidence in, have faith, have faith in, rely on, trust), antaa tehtäväksi (tell). (various references)

   

French

  

confier, charger. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

fertrouwe (confide, have confidence in, have faith, have faith in, trust). (various references)

   

German

  

anvertrauen (commit, confide, intrust, to confide, to entrust, to intrust), betrauen (give task, tell). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εμπιστεύομαι (commit, confide, consign, intrust, repose, trust, vasty, vest). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לפקו" (appoint, command, muster, order, punish, recall, remember, review, visit), ל"פקי" (appoint, deposit, set). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megbíz (charge, commission, delegate, intrust, to commission, to delegate, to entrust, to mandate). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menitipkan (deposit, to place in safe-keeping), mengamanatkan (commit, dedicate, instruct), mempercayakan (rely). (various references)

   

Italian

  

confidare (confide, confide in, intrust, rely, rely on, trust, unbosom), affidare (commit, confide, consign, grant, intrust, leave, rely on, remit, to rely). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"託 (commit, consignto a firm)). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いたく (commit, consignto a firm), dependence, exceedingly). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

위임하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

cur currym er (depute). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

betro (confide). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

konfia (confide, have confidence in, trust). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entrustay

   

Portuguese

  

terconfiançaem (have confidence in, trust), mezanino (mezzanine), incumbir (delegate, tell), crer (accredit, believe, confide, deem, fancy, have confidence in, judge, suppose, Trow, trust, ween), contarcom (have confidence in, trust), confiar (beyond hope, charge, commit, confide, consign, depend, entry, have confidence in, intuition, lip reading, rely, trust), comissionar (commission, tell). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

încredinţa (assure, commit, confide, consign to, convince, give over, leave to, recommend, tell, trust). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вверять (commend, commit, confide, deposit, intrust), поручать (charge, confide, intrust). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poveriti (confide, delegate, intrust), poveravati (confide, unbosom). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

encomendar (commend, commit, intrust), confiar (confide, intrust, rely, trust). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

anförtro (commend, commit, confide, consign, delegate, deposit, depute, entrusted, trust). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

emanet etmek (bail, commend, commit, confide, consign, deposit, resign, trust, trust smb. with smth.), görevlendirmek (commission, deploy, draft, draught, draw out, elect, employ, give work, instruct, place, post, set on, station). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tabюyrmak (charge with a comission, deliver). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

доручати (accredit, assign, charge, commit, confide, consign, intrust, trust), довіряти (accredit, believe, confide in, credit, string along, trust). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-ethemba (account, accredit, believe, confide, deem, have confidence in, have faith, have faith in, hope, trust). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Entrust

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

taka. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

commenda, commendabam, commendabit, commendabo, commendamus, commendant, commendantes, commendarat, commendare, commendaret, commendari, commendasset, commendat, commendata, commendatum, commendatus, commendaverit, commendaverunt, commendavit, commendo, commiserat, commiserit, commiserunt, commisi, commisit, commissum, commissura, commissuram, commissuras, committant, committe, committebant, committenda, committentes, committere, committit, committitis, committunt, credam, credamus, credant, credas, credat, credatis, crede, credebam, credebant, credebat, credemus, credendo, credens, credent, credentem, credentes, credenti, credentibus, credentium, credere, crederent, crederentur, crederet, crederetis, crederetur, crederis, credes, credet, credetis, credi, crediderant, crediderint, credideris, crediderit, credideritis, crediderunt, credidi, credidimus, credidissent, credidisti, credidistis, credidit, credimus, credis, credit, credita, creditae, creditam, credite, creditis, creditor, creditum, creditur, credituri, creditus, credo, credunt, defer, deferant, deferat, deferebant, deferebat, deferebatur, deferens, deferent, deferentes, deferes, deferet, deferetur, deferre, deferrent, deferrentur, deferte, delatae, delatura, delaturam, delatus, demandare, detulerant, detulerat, detulerunt, detuli, detulissent, detulisset, detulisti, detulit, discredatis, legant, legati, legatos, legatum, legatur, legatus, legem, legere, legeris, leges, legesque, leget, legetque, manda, mandabit, mandabo, mandans, mandare, mandas, mandassem, mandassent, mandasti, mandastis, mandat, mandata, mandate, mandati, mandatis, mandato, mandatorum, mandatum, mandatumque, mandaverat, mandaverit, mandavero, mandaverunt, mandavi, mandavimus, mandavit, mandetis, mando, permiserit, permisisset, permisit, permissum, permittas, permitte, permittebat, permitteret, permittes, permittis, permittite, permittitur, permitto, remanda. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Entrust

Derivations

Words beginning with "entrust": entrusted, entrusting, entrustment, entrustments, entrusts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Entrust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Centrust, enarques, Entract, entropt, entrus, etrus, Etruschi, intust, untrus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Entrust"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "entrust" (pronounced entru"st)
5-t r u" s tantitrust, distrust, mistrust, trust.
4-r u" s tcrust, encrust, incrust, rust, thrust.
3-u" s tadjust, bused, bussed, bust, Combust, cussed, discussed, disgust, dust, fussed, gust, just, lust, must, nonplussed, readjust, robust, unjust.

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

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Anagrams: Entrust

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nutters.

Words within the letters "e-n-r-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: nutter, strunt, truest, tuners, unrest, utters.

-2 letters: nerts, netts, nurse, rents, runes, runts, stern, strut, stunt, sturt, tents, terns, trets, trues, trust, tuner, tunes, turns, unset, utter.

-3 letters: erns, erst, nest, nets, nett, nuts, rent, rest, rets, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, sent, sett, stet, stun, suer, suet, sure, tens, tent.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: entrusts, runtiest, strunted, taunters, untruest.

 

+2 letters: brunettes, buttoners, denturist, earthnuts, entrusted, intercuts, intrusted, nutrients, quitrents, rebuttons, resultant, tinctures, transmute, truncates, turnstile, turnstone, unfetters, untethers.

 

+3 letters: butternuts, denturists, entrusting, frutescent, gutterings, instituter, instructed, instrument, interrupts, lutestring, menstruate, neutralist, nutriments, portentous, pothunters, putrescent, reductants, restaurant, resultants, russetting, scattergun, scuttering, shuttering, sputtering, stuttering, transmuted, transmutes, transudate, tribunates, triunities, truantries, trusteeing, trustiness, turbinates, turgescent, turnstiles, turnstones, turntables, unclutters, understate, uninterest, unsaturate, utterances.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Entrust


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 74 72 75 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01110101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#117 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0074 0072 0075 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39808684878586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Speeches
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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