entrust
verb
transitive verb
Synonyms
- assign
- charge
- commission
- task
- trust
Example Sentences
Dave Mosley, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 Typically, if research advances far enough, families entrust biotech companies to bring drugs to market. Fortune, 21 July 2022 Final Thought - Goldco Review Is Goldco the right company to entrust your retirement money to? Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2022 Pence's instinct was there was no way the Founding Fathers would entrust a single person with this authority to determine an election, Jacobs testified. Lisa Mascaro, Chron, 16 June 2022 What has inspired them to entrust one of the NFL’s most crucial positions — backup quarterback — to Nate Sudfeld, 28, who is largely unknown and nearly wholly unproven? Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 May 2022 The move was also an acknowledgment by the Daley administration that the city could not entrust such a major transportation improvement to the CTA alone. Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2022 State and local governments should entrust their money to managers that don’t work against their residents’ best interests. Mike Pence, WSJ, 26 May 2022 Instead, business owners can entrust some of these projects to their employees. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022 See More Word History
1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
entrust
verb
Legal Definition
entrust
transitive verb
entrust
verb
Synonyms & Similar Words
- trust
- task
- charge
- assign
- recommend
- invest
- commission
- impose
- confer
- empower
- confide
- commit
- delegate
- allocate
- authorize
- consign
- relegate
- repose
- allot
Synonyms & Similar Words
- leave
- transfer
- give
- trust
- relinquish
- commit
- confide
- recommend
- commend
- consign
- hand
- transmit
- delegate
- assign
- deliver
- bequeath
- pass
- loan
- repose
- will
- lend
- dispense
- hand over
- turn over
- give over
- vest
- confer
- grant
- submit
- distribute
- furnish
- surrender
- disperse
- divide
- supply
- hand in
- turn in
- hand on
- yield
- hand down
- release
- advance
- recommit
- deal (out)
- retransfer
- redeliver
- retransmit
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- hold
- retain
- keep
- withhold
- possess
- receive
- accept
- own
- take
- reserve
- detain
- occupy
- hold back
- take over
- take in
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of entrust are commit, confide, consign, and relegate. While all these words mean "to assign to a person or place for a definite purpose," entrust implies committing with trust and confidence.
The meanings of commit and entrust largely overlap; however, commit may express the general idea of delivering into another's charge or the special sense of transferring to a superior power or to a special place of custody.
In some situations, the words confide and entrust are roughly equivalent. However, confide implies entrusting with great assurance or reliance.
While the synonyms consign and entrust are close in meaning, consign suggests removing from one's control with formality or finality.
The words relegate and entrust can be used in similar contexts, but relegate implies a consigning to a particular class or sphere often with a suggestion of getting rid of.