verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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care
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If he entrusts you to her care you should rely on her.
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Various orders of priests served as custodians of her shrine until the year 1050 when the Benedictines were entrusted with its care .
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If Rob had been Carlo, he would not have entrusted Billie to his care .
responsibility
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Many people believe that voluntary bodies as they are today can not be entrusted with this national responsibility .
task
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Is it not sufficient to entrust Parliament with the task of ensuring that constitutionalism is respected in the United Kingdom?
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How, they ask, can we entrust this task to some one whose character is anything less than spotless?
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In fact, in 1914 he was entrusted with the task of servicing loans guaranteed by customs revenue earmarked for that purpose.
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As with cathedral buildings, time was entrusted with the task of seasoning and moulding the diverse parts into a harmonious whole.
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The officials who were entrusted with the task of putting him to death behaved with as much humanity as possible.
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Neither political system could rely with confidence on those to whom it entrusted the task of educating the peasants.
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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
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As a child Bertrand was entrusted to the care of nuns at a local convent.
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I foolishly entrusted the task of collecting the money to Ron.
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Managers show respect for employees by entrusting them with important decisions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alternatively, programmed decisions can be entrusted to a fairly junior level of management.
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And she had been entrusted with its safe keeping.
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I need to entrust you with a story and there is some one I hope you will pass it along to.
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Many people believe that voluntary bodies as they are today can not be entrusted with this national responsibility.
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Most tasks entrusted to governments were also fairly straight forward, so performance tended to take care of itself.
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Various orders of priests served as custodians of her shrine until the year 1050 when the Benedictines were entrusted with its care.
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We are entrusted with public funds.
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When managers entrust employees with important decisions, they signal their respect for those employees.