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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
entrust .
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Examples
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The company "entrusts" staffers to spend up to $2,000 on guests per incident without approval from their general managers.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dov Seidman 2011
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The company "entrusts" staffers to spend up to $2,000 on guests per incident without approval from their general managers.
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Michiel becomes involved when a local member of the underground entrusts him with a message, just before the Nazis uncover and shoot Michiel's friend.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Winter in Wartime Marshall Fine 2011
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In this difficult and depressing parable, a master entrusts three servants with some money.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald: Occupy Pessimism Jonathan D. Fitzgerald 2011
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Michiel becomes involved when a local member of the underground entrusts him with a message, just before the Nazis uncover and shoot Michiel's friend.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Winter in Wartime Marshall Fine 2011
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"Steve" entrusts us with the responsibility of drafting "some kind of friendly and personal but firmly discouraging" rejection.
MONDAY 2009
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Wolfe was the first owner to sell minority stakes to his key people, President Mike Crowley and general manager Billy Beane, to whom he entrusts a lot of control.
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This story entrusts the reader with a secret that even Olive will never know: that Henry's apparent simplicity is at least in part a form of defense; that throughout his life he will grapple with longings and secrets of his own, and understand more about his wife than she realizes.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010
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I am grateful to Mr. Soper; the difficulty of the tasks he entrusts to me, every moment of the day my thoughts absorbed by puzzles he presents me.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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This story entrusts the reader with a secret that even Olive will never know: that Henry's apparent simplicity is at least in part a form of defense; that throughout his life he will grapple with longings and secrets of his own, and understand more about his wife than she realizes.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010
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