trusteeshipn.

1692 H. Harrison Last Words Dying Penitent 10 I am now using endeavours to get Row turned out of his Trusteeship.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxxix. 362 To settle and give up my trusteeship, is one of the principal motives of my leaving these parts.

1783 R. Harris Appeal to Public i. vii. 145 At the expiration of their Trusteeship, they deliver..all such accounts and papers, as shall be in their possession.

1831 B. Disraeli Young Duke II. iii. vii. 77 I have just had a note from Challoner, preliminary, I suppose, to my trusteeship.

1883 H. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Aug. 459/2 He gave his wife the trusteeship of his diet.

1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity xlii. 638 He offered him everything from a trusteeship to the reinstatement of his time-off-for-good-behavior.

2007 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. a14/2 New York's pension fund fared extremely well under his trusteeship.

1827 W. Webb Minutes Remarks Subj. Picturesque II. xiii. 279 Domains..have been held as in trusteeship for the subjects.

1852 S. H. Dickson Ess. Life, Sleep, Pain, &c. 169 In a very few limited communities..the drunkard is put under trusteeship, both as to his person and estate.

1885 Sir J. Pearson in Law Times Rep. 51 902/1 The will contained a direction that any vacancy in the trusteeship should be filled up within a year.

1888 Ann. Rep. Board Educ. State Connecticut 146 In this way the appearance of trusteeship is retained.

1912 Times 19 Dec. 16/3 Directorates and voting trusteeships of various large banks, financial institutions, and corporations.

1960 N.Y. Times 27 Mar. 88/1 The affairs of a local were put under a trusteeship after the conviction of a former president on a charge of bribery.

2009 Art Q. Winter 20/2 Museums and art galleries hold their collections in trusteeship for the public.

1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 113/1 This vast and magnificent portion of the earth has been given to the trusteeship of England.

1898 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 628 The white man's drink, diseases, vices, and crimes are partly offset by the benefits of imperial trusteeship.

1936 Internat. Labour Rev. June 856 A state of affairs which..constitutes a flagrant breach of that ideal of trusteeship of Native races not yet able to stand by themselves.

1942 J. C. Smuts Basis Trusteeship Afr. Policy 7 I remember..that Cecil Rhodes used repeatedly to say that the proper relation between Whites and Blacks in this country [sc. S. Africa] was the relation between guardian and ward. This is the basis of trusteeship.

1964 G. Mbeki Peasants' Revolt 28 The slogan of trusteeship, a euphemism for depriving the African, amongst other things, of his vote.

2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard v. 64 The idea of ‘imperial trusteeship’ for the betterment of so-called native societies.

1945 U.N. Charter xii. §79, in Times 27 June 8/5 The terms of trusteeship for each territory..shall be agreed upon by the States directly concerned.

1952 Times 5 Aug. 3/7 The Cameroons territory, which was formerly under British mandate and is now under United Kingdom trusteeship.

1959 Listener 19 Nov. 880/1 The Belgian trusteeship territory of Ruanda-Urundi, Central Africa.

2005 New Internationalist Mar. 36/1 Washington tested two more at Bikini Atoll. It secured UN Trusteeship over the territory in 1947, with instructions to promote Marshallese self-sufficiency and health, and proceeded to detonate another 65.