Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The position or function of a trustee.
- noun The condition of being in a trust relationship.
- noun Administration of a territory by a country or countries so commissioned by the United Nations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or functions of a trustee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office or duty of a trustee.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The position or office of being a
trustee . - noun A United Nations trust territory or its administration.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the position of trustee
- noun a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations
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Examples
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The red tape jungle was built into the Act to protect the Crown -- the people of Canada if you like, from the dangers inherent in trusteeship and to protect the Indians from being hoodwinked out of their land.
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This idea of political trusteeship is one of the relatively rare inventions in the political field.
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They call it "trusteeship" - the trade union equivalent, according to Steve Early, of martial law.
LA IMC 2009
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This obligation was referred to as the trusteeship model.
Charles Warner: How to Fix Capitalism, But Not the Media Charles Warner 2011
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This obligation was referred to as the trusteeship model.
Charles Warner: How to Fix Capitalism, But Not the Media Charles Warner 2011
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At a later phase, the British Empire decided, with the approval of the League of Nations, to postpone or freeze (but not to annul!) the mandate decision (that is, the trusteeship) in eastern Palestine (current-day Jordan) and work to implement the decision in western Palestine only – that is, to settle Jews there urgently and densely.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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But a reluctance to jeopardize the idea of trusteeship has, I think, some effect on how the tribes view the Cobell litigation.
Archive 2003-01-26 Jacob T. Levy 2003
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But a reluctance to jeopardize the idea of trusteeship has, I think, some effect on how the tribes view the Cobell litigation.
01/26/2003 - 02/02/2003 Jacob T. Levy 2003
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But a reluctance to jeopardize the idea of trusteeship has, I think, some effect on how the tribes view the Cobell litigation.
Jacob T. Levy Jacob T. Levy 2003
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To segregation he opposed the idea of trusteeship, not for the benefit of the trustee but for the benefit of the ward.
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