entrusted

Given for safekeeping

Entrusted is the past tense of entrust, meaning to give someone responsibility for something valuable or important.

You entrust a task to a capable person, or entrust a person with a task: She entrusted her savings to a financial advisor.

The word implies confidence in the recipient's reliability or discretion: He was entrusted with the company's most sensitive documents.

delegation

delegated

Assigned to a subordinate

designated · tasked · authorized · empowered · charged · mandated · conferred · handed · given · nominated

custody

safekeeping

Protective care of possessions

protection · care · keeping · charge · preservation · custody · trusteeship · conservatorship · wardship · deposit

responsibility

accountability

Obligation for one's actions

management · administration · supervision · governance · leadership · direction · control · handling · conduct · execution

trust

faith

Trust without proof

assurance · conviction · credence · dependence · loyalty · fidelity · allegiance · certainty · expectation · hope

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Opposites
transfer of responsibility or possession

entrustedwithheld

Kept from giving

retained · kept · held back · hoarded · denied

confidence and trust

entrusteddistrusted

Lacked faith in

mistrusted · doubted · suspected · refused · rejected

Family

entrust, entrusting, entrusts, entrustment

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G