Entry Word: entrust

Function: verb

Meaning: 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, trust

Related Words confer, impose; commit, consign, delegate, relegate; 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> — see give 2