Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals (beneficiaries), or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.

    Treuhänder, Treuhänderin

    попечи́тельpopečítelʹ, попечи́тельницаpopečítelʹnica, довери́тельный со́бственникdoverítelʹnyj sóbstvennik

    a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit

  2. A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The Board of Trustees voted to divest the organization's overseas holdings.

    Опікунська рада проголосувала за позбавлення організації закордонних вкладів. — Andrey

  2. Tom served as a trustee for three years.

  3. She is the only trustee of the university who never attended it as a student.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
person to whom property is legally committed in trust:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person to whom property is legally committed in trust:

Origin

From trust + -ee.

From trust + -ee.

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Forms

plural: trustees
Singulartrustee
Pluraltrustees

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit:legal guardian
  • members of a governing board:regent

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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