Entrust Meaning
/ɪnˈtɹʌst/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo trust to the care of.
Sentence Examples
Can I entrust the task to you?
But Jesus would not entrust himself to them.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The manager decided to ____ the confidential files to her assistant.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You should only ____ your confidential passwords to people you truly know.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English trust English entrust From en- + trust.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^([sic]) to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]"
— 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:
"The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff."
— 2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN, page 1742:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The manager decided to ____ the confidential files to her assistant.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You should only ____ your confidential passwords to people you truly know.