Trustee
[trʌs'tiː] or [trʌ'sti]
Definition
(noun.) a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit.
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Definition
(n.) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
(v. t.) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.
(v. t.) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Depositary, fiduciary.
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Examples
- That this income was regularly paid by the active Trustee, Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I have no trustee, but the one you saw on the day when you fraudulently married me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was a commissioner, or a board, or a trustee, 'or something. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Was he not your trustee? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In a similar way I am, or I have been, trustee of one kind or other for scores of our customers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Here, too, the bride's trustee; an oilcake-fed style of business-gentleman with mooney spectacles, and an object of much interest. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Also, that the whole of the young gentleman's fortune had been spent by his Trustee, by the end of the year 'forty-seven. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Austria turned against him (1813); all Europe was eager to rise against this defaulting trustee of freedom, this mere usurper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was Chairman of this, Trustee of that, President of the other. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is to be found in Fairbottom Valley, half way between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, and is the property of the trustees of the late Earl of Stamford and Warrington. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He married--an English lady--and I was one of the trustees. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In Great Britain, the abuses which the trustees have committed in the management of those tolls, have, in many cases, been very justly complained of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In spite of the powerful opposition that the company encountered, and the threats of the road trustees and others, the Stockton and Darlington line was opened for travel on September 27, 1825. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is proper, therefore, that the tolls for the maintenance of such a work should be put under the management of commissioners or trustees. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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