entrust something to someone

  • 1entrust — en‧trust [ɪnˈtrʌst] or intrust verb [transitive] to make someone responsible for doing something or dealing with something: entrust somebody with something • The presidentially appointed panel is entrusted with keeping the stock markets fair and… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 2entrust — ► VERB 1) (entrust with) assign a responsibility to. 2) (entrust to) put (something) into someone s care …

    English terms dictionary

  • 3entrust — [[t]ɪntrʌ̱st[/t]] entrusts, entrusting, entrusted VERB If you entrust something important to someone or entrust them with it, you make them responsible for looking after it or dealing with it. [V n to n] If parents wanted to entrust their prized… …

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  • 4entrust — en·trust also in·trust vt 1: to deliver something to (a person) under a charge or duty 2: to give (something) over to the care of another; specif: to deliver to a merchant who may transfer ownership to a buyer in the ordinary course of business… …

    Law dictionary

  • 5entrust — en|trust [ınˈtrʌst] v [T] to make someone responsible for doing something important, or for taking care of someone entrust sth/sb to sb ▪ She entrusted her son s education to a private tutor. be entrusted with sth/sb ▪ I was entrusted with the… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 6entrust — verb (T) to make someone responsible for doing something important: entrust sb with sth: I was entrusted with the task of looking after the money. | entrust sth to sb: The infant Prince was entrusted to an English nurse, Miss Shaw …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 7commend someone/thing to — archaic or formal entrust someone or something to. → commend …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 8recommend someone/thing to — archaic commend or entrust someone or something to. → recommend …

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  • 9make something over to someone — TRANSFER, sign over, turn over, hand over/on/down, give, leave, bequeath, bestow, pass on, assign, consign, entrust; Law devolve, convey. → make …

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  • 10demand — [13] Latin dēmandāre meant ‘entrust something to someone’. It was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē and mandāre ‘entrust, commit’ (source of English mandate). As it passed via Old French demander into English, its meaning… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins