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, give (also intrust), give over, hand, hand over, leave, pass, recommend, repose, transfer, transmit, trust, turn over, vestRelated 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, retransmitNear Antonyms detain, hold back, reserve, withhold; own, possess; accept, receive, take in; occupy, take, take overAntonyms hold, keep, retain