entrusting
Placing in care
Entrusting is the act of placing something valuable—whether physical, like money or possessions, or abstract, like responsibility or secrets—into someone else's care with the expectation they will protect or manage it faithfully.
The word implies confidence in the recipient: She's entrusting her children to her sister while she travels.
You entrust something to someone, or entrust someone with something.
Transferring authority to another
- assigningDesignating for a purpose
- appointingSelecting for a position
- commissioningOrdering work to be made
- authorizingGranting official permission
empowering · deputizing · designating · tasking · mandating · transferring · vesting · chartering
Sharing secrets trustingly
- dependingContingent on something else
- relyingPlacing trust in
- faithTrust without proof
- beliefTrust held as true
confidence · credence · assurance · conviction · certainty · expectation · hope · optimism
Legal care of another
- stewardshipResponsible care of entrusted things
- safekeepingProtective care of possessions
- custodianshipResponsibility for care, protection
- chargeCost or accusation
care · protection · oversight · keeping · wardship · caretaking · supervision · management
Obligation for one's actions
- dutyRequired moral task
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
- burdenOppressive weight or duty
charge · mandate · fiduciary · commitment · bond · pledge · promise · oath
Transfer of control
- consignmentBatch delivered for selling
- conveyanceTransfer of property rights
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- bequeathalTestamentary property transfer
endowment · devolution · commitment · delivery · transmission · passing · surrender · relinquishment
delegating
Transferring authority to another
- assigningDesignating for a purpose
- appointingSelecting for a position
- commissioningOrdering work to be made
authorizing · empowering · deputizing · designating · tasking · mandating · transferring · vesting · chartering · devolving
confiding
Sharing secrets trustingly
belief · confidence · credence · assurance · conviction · certainty · expectation · hope · optimism · security
guardianship
Legal care of another
- stewardshipResponsible care of entrusted things
- safekeepingProtective care of possessions
- custodianshipResponsibility for care, protection
charge · care · protection · oversight · keeping · wardship · caretaking · supervision · management · preservation
accountability
Obligation for one's actions
- dutyRequired moral task
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
burden · charge · mandate · fiduciary · commitment · bond · pledge · promise · oath · covenant
handover
Transfer of control
- consignmentBatch delivered for selling
- conveyanceTransfer of property rights
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
bequeathal · endowment · devolution · commitment · delivery · transmission · passing · surrender · relinquishment · yielding
- assigningassigning, allocating, appointing, attributing, crediting
- delegationdelegating, assigning, tasking, handing off, handoff
- Trust actsconfiding, believing, opening up, vulnerability, disclosure
- approvalsapproved, approve, authorizing, certification, endorsing
- distributingdistributing, dispensing, allocating, apportioning, doling out
entrustingretaining
Holding onto still
withholding · keeping · hoarding · guarding · reserving
entrustingdistrusting
Lacking confidence in others
mistrusting · doubting · micromanaging · suspecting · second-guessing
trust, trusting, trustworthy, trusted, mistrust, distrust, trusty, entrust, trustee