ENTRUST


Meaning of ENTRUST in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

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.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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 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.

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