TRUSTEE

regent, trustee

(noun) members of a governing board

trustee, legal guardian

(noun) a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another’s benefit

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

trustee (plural trustees)

A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.

A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

Verb

trustee (third-person singular simple present trustees, present participle trusteeing, simple past and past participle trusteed)

(transitive) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee.

(transitive) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.

Anagrams

• Surette

Source: Wiktionary

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Trus*tee", n. (Law)

Definition: A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process. Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]

Trus*tee", v. t.

1. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

2. (Law)

Definition: To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. [U.S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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