trustee

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

trust +‎ -ee

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -iː

NounEdit

trustee (plural trustees)

1. 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
2. a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

Derived termsEdit

• board of trustees
• public trustee

TranslationsEdit

person to whom property is legally committed in trust

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 受託人 (zh), 受托人 (zh) (shòutuōrén), 受託者 (zh), 受托者 (zh) (shoùtuōzhě)

• Dutch: mandataris, beheerder (nl)
• Finnish: uskottu mies
• French: mandataire social m, fiduciaire (fr) m, f
• German: Treuhänder m, Treuhänderin f
• Greek: διαχειριστής (el) m (diacheiristís)

• Icelandic: fjárhaldsmaður m
• Japanese: 受託者 (じゅたくしゃ, jutakusha), 管財人 (かんざいにん, kanzainin), 保管人 (ほかんにん, hokannin)
• Russian: попечи́тель (ru) m (popečítelʹ), попечи́тельница (ru) f (popečítelʹnica), довери́тельный со́бственник m (doverítelʹnyj sóbstvennik), довери́тельная со́бственница f (doverítelʹnaja sóbstvennica)
• Spanish: fiduciario (es) m, fiduciaria f
• Tagalog: katiwala
• Thai: ทรัสตี (thratsati)

VerbEdit

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

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

   to trustee an estate

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