entrust

entrust

verb

Definition of ENTRUST

1

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to <we entrusted our financial adviser with the investment of all of our savings>

Synonyms assign, charge, commission, task, trust

Related Words confer, impose; commit, confide, consign, delegate, recommend, relegate, repose; allocate, allot; authorize, empower, invest

2

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another <we entrusted our pets to the care of our neighbor while we went on vacation>

Synonyms commend, commit, confide, consign, delegate, deliver, entrust (also intrust), give over, hand, hand over, leave, pass, recommend, repose, transfer, transmit, trust, turn over, vest

Related Words confer, grant; assign, deal (out), dispense, disperse, distribute, divide; hand in, release, relinquish, submit, surrender, turn in, yield; bequeath, hand down, hand on, will; advance, lend, loan; furnish, supply; recommit, redeliver, regive, retransfer, retransmit

Near Antonyms detain, hold back, reserve, withhold; own, possess; accept, receive, take in; occupy, take, take over

Antonyms hold, keep, retain

Variants of ENTRUST

entrust also intrust