0 present participle of entrust
1 to give someone a thing or a duty for which they are responsible:
The venture of faith is an act of trust, or of entrusting oneself, in the light of what is believed.
Her new contribution to this discussion revolves around the phenomenon of city merchants purchasing sheep and entrusting them to nomads for care and shearing.
Under normal circumstances, entrusting stylebook decisions to so large a group would be thought a recipe for linguistic confusion, but circumstances were not normal.
By entrusting 'prefects' with the interpretation of the law, the emergency anticipated the centralising and authoritarian trends which would arise during the war.
In doing so, he stressed the need to bolster the cattle entrusting system, existing in ' friendly ' relations between the communities, with specific policy measures.
These beliefs are involved in entrusting someone with a given task.
He further distinguishes between thin believing, in which there is no entrusting of oneself, and thick believing, in which there is.
But there might be no occasion for me to act on my trust by entrusting some matter to you.
