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  • noun The act of entrusting.

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Examples

  • Banks also facilitate direct loans between companies, known as entrustment loans, a method that has been particularly popular with property developers.

    China Faces Threat 2008

  • What you mean is negligent entrustment, which is a very narrow class of suits.

    CNN Transcript May 10, 2003 2003

  • Such lending includes the use of entrustment loans and bank-acceptance bills, a type of bank guarantee.

    China Alters Measure of Credit Growth Aaron Back 2011

  • Such lending includes the use of entrustment loans and bank-acceptance bills, a type of bank guarantee.

    Chinese Bank Lending Slows 2011

  • The policy at issue excluded coverage for bodily injury "arising out of the ownership, maintenance, use or entrustment to others of any ... 'auto' ... owned or operated by or rented or loaned to any insured."

    NY Court of Appeals 2008

  • The policy at issue excluded coverage for bodily injury "arising out of the ownership, maintenance, use or entrustment to others of any ... 'auto' ... owned or operated by or rented or loaned to any insured."

    Insurance Defense 2007

  • There ` s-- there ` s a host of civil liabilities that may attach as far as negligent -- negligent entrustment or negligent supervision, things of that nature.

    CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2009 2009

  • In this way the Scapular becomes a sign of the "covenant" and reciprocal communion between Mary and the faithful: indeed, it concretely translates the gift of his Mother, which Jesus gave on the Cross to John and, through him, to all of us, and the entrustment of the beloved Apostle and of us to her, who became our spiritual Mother.

    Archive 2009-07-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • Perhaps we can go for a bizarre sort of negligent entrustment?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Volokh Conspiracy Drinking Game 2009

  • Stewardship depends on rejecting the immoral mine of the here and now and embracing an entrustment for the future.

    The Republican Reformation - Jobs- Can We Still Save the American Dream? 2008

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