entrustment
Giving into custody
Entrustment is the act of placing something in another's care or responsibility.
A parent's entrustment of children to a babysitter, a company's entrustment of sensitive data to employees.
In legal contexts, negligent entrustment occurs when someone allows an unfit person to use a dangerous item: The lawsuit alleged negligent entrustment of a vehicle to an unlicensed driver.
Obligation for one's actions
- dutyRequired moral task
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- fiduciaryAgent bound by loyalty
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
stewardship · charge · burden · answerability · commitment · onus · mandate · guardianship
Legal care of another
- wardshipLegal custody arrangement
- safekeepingProtective care of possessions
- conservatorshipCourt-appointed care management
- protectionGuarding against harm
charge · keeping · care · tutelage · supervision · oversight · fostering · stewardship
Allocated work or duty
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- authorizationFormal permission granted
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- transferMove between locations
designation · empowerment · appointment · conferral · devolution · charge · handover · consignment
Trust without proof
- relianceState of needing support
- beliefTrust held as true
- assuranceFirm promise or certainty
- dependenceState of needing another
credence · conviction · fidelity · loyalty · faithfulness · reliability · trustworthiness · integrity
accountability
Obligation for one's actions
- dutyRequired moral task
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- fiduciaryAgent bound by loyalty
liability · stewardship · charge · burden · answerability · commitment · onus · mandate · guardianship · custodianship
guardianship
Legal care of another
- wardshipLegal custody arrangement
- safekeepingProtective care of possessions
- conservatorshipCourt-appointed care management
protection · charge · keeping · care · tutelage · supervision · oversight · fostering · stewardship · caretaking
assignment
Allocated work or duty
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- authorizationFormal permission granted
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
transfer · designation · empowerment · appointment · conferral · devolution · charge · handover · consignment · deputation
faith
Trust without proof
dependence · credence · conviction · fidelity · loyalty · faithfulness · reliability · trustworthiness · integrity · confidence
- transfertransfer, transferring, transference, transmittal, transmitting
- transferstransfer, money transfer, bank transfer, wire transfer, fund transfer
- bailmentbailment, bailee, bailor, safekeeping, redelivery
- Safekeepingsafe, lockbox, safe deposit box, strongbox, bank vault
- trusteeshipcustodianship, stewardship, conservatorship, wardship, receivership
- Jewish contractsketubah, loan agreement, binding agreements, sale contract, written contract
entrustmentretention
Continued holding or possession
withholding · keeping · reclamation · retrieval · repossession
entrustmentdistrust
Absence of confidence
mistrust · suspicion · wariness · micromanagement · guardedness
trust, trustworthy, mistrust, distrust, entrust, trustee, trustful, entrusting, entrusted