英语词汇“entrust”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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entrust

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	entrust
	he, she, it	entrusts
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	entrusted
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have entrusted
	he, she, it	has entrusted
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had entrusted
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will entrust
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have entrusted

Continuous Form
Present	I	am entrusting
	he, she, it	is entrusting
	you, we, they	are entrusting
Past	I, he, she, it	was entrusting
	you, we, they	were entrusting
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been entrusting
	he, she, it	has been entrusting
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been entrusting
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be entrusting
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been entrusting

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

As a child Bertrand was entrusted to the care of nuns at a local convent.
I foolishly entrusted the task of collecting the money to Ron.
Managers show respect for employees by entrusting them with important decisions.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Alternatively, programmed decisions can be entrusted to a fairly junior level of management.
And she had been entrusted with its safe keeping.
I need to entrust you with a story and there is some one I hope you will pass it along to.
Many people believe that voluntary bodies as they are today can not be entrusted with this national responsibility.
Most tasks entrusted to governments were also fairly straight forward, so performance tended to take care of itself.
Various orders of priests served as custodians of her shrine until the year 1050 when the Benedictines were entrusted with its care.
We are entrusted with public funds.
When managers entrust employees with important decisions, they signal their respect for those employees.

Longman Language Activatorto give the responsibility for doing something to another person► make somebody responsible for

· The law makes the government responsible for clean up of the waste at these sites.· Our department has been made responsible for all areas of training.· The best way of ensuring that the chores are done is by making each child responsible for a different one.

► put somebody in charge

to give someone the responsibility of doing something or of making sure that it is done: · The boss is going to be out of the office next week, and he's putting me in charge.put sb in charge of: · Who have they put in charge of the investigation?· He had done rather well in the job and had been put in charge of a whole chain of stores.

► delegate

to make someone you work with, especially someone in a lower position than you, responsible for a job or duty, so that you do not have to do it yourself: · New managers often find it difficult to delegate.· If you're so busy, why don't you delegate some of your work?

► pass the buck

to try not to accept responsibility for a problem or a mistake that you have made, by saying that it was someone else's fault: · It's easy to pass the buck and blame someone else for your failure.· Diplomats say NATO is clearly at fault, and that officials there are trying to pass the buck.

► leave something with

British to make someone responsible for something that you cannot do or do not have time to do: · I didn't have time to do the accounts so I left them with Sophie.· Can we leave all this with you? It's just too complicated for us to understand.

► leave it to

to make someone responsible for doing something, especially something that has already been started: · Leave it to me. I'll find you a place to stay.leave it to somebody to do something: · Can I leave it to you to sort out the details of the conference?· The proposal leaves it to local communities to enforce the law.

► entrust

formal to give someone the responsibility of doing something important, especially because you believe they will do it well and honestly: entrust somebody/something to somebody: · I foolishly entrusted the task of collecting the money to Ron.entrust somebody with something: · Managers show respect for employees by entrusting them with important decisions.entrust somebody/something to the care of somebody: · As a child Bertrand was entrusted to the care of nuns at a local convent.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► care

· If he entrusts you to her care you should rely on her.· Various orders of priests served as custodians of her shrine until the year 1050 when the Benedictines were entrusted with its care.· If Rob had been Carlo, he would not have entrusted Billie to his care.

► responsibility

· Many people believe that voluntary bodies as they are today can not be entrusted with this national responsibility.

► task

· Is it not sufficient to entrust Parliament with the task of ensuring that constitutionalism is respected in the United Kingdom?· How, they ask, can we entrust this task to some one whose character is anything less than spotless?· In fact, in 1914 he was entrusted with the task of servicing loans guaranteed by customs revenue earmarked for that purpose.· As with cathedral buildings, time was entrusted with the task of seasoning and moulding the diverse parts into a harmonious whole.· The officials who were entrusted with the task of putting him to death behaved with as much humanity as possible.· Neither political system could rely with confidence on those to whom it entrusted the task of educating the peasants.· It discounted their felt need for individual responsibility and their desire to be entrusted with tasks over which they alone had control.