truster

English

Etymology

From trust +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌstɚ/

Noun

truster (plural trusters)

1. A person who trusts.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     I would not hear your enemy say so,
     Nor shall you do mine ear that violence
     To make it truster of your own report
     Against yourself.

   • 1856, Walt Whitman, “Poem of the Road” [later entitled “Song of the Open Road”] in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860, p. 324,^[1]

     Habitues of many different countries, habitues of far-distant dwellings,

     Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,

   • 1950, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 7, in Across the River and into the Trees‎^[2], London: Readers Union, published 1952:

     Giorgio did not really like the Colonel very much, or perhaps he was simply from Piemonte and cared for no one truly; which was understandable in cold people from a border province. Borderers are not trusters and the Colonel knew about this and expected nothing from anyone that they did not have to give.

Related terms

• brains-truster

Anagrams

• Surrett, rutters, turrets

French

Etymology

trust (from English trust) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁœs.te/

• Audio:

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Verb

truster

1. (finance) to put into a trust
2. (by extension) to monopolize
   • 2011, Didier Lestrade, “Pied-Noir et pro-Arabe”, in Revue Minorités:

     Et je me dis que la dernière génération de pieds-noirs à laquelle j’appartiens devrait manifester sa joie et l’imposer à l’autre partie des pieds-noirs, plus âgée, celle qui truste les associations et les leaders politiques, celle qui empêche littéralement la France de sortir de cette rancœur vis-à-vis les Arabes.

     And I tell myself that the final generation of Pieds-Noirs to which I belong should have made clear their joy and imposed it on the other part of the Pieds-Noirs, the older ones who monopolize the associations [of Pieds-Noirs] and the political leadership, who quite literally block France from escaping this resentment towards the Arabs.

3. (North America, colloquial, proscribed) to trust; to believe in

Conjugation

Conjugation of truster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	truster
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trustant /tʁys.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trusté /tʁys.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	truste /tʁyst/	trustes /tʁyst/	truste /tʁyst/	trustons /tʁys.tɔ̃/	trustez /tʁys.te/	trustent /tʁyst/
	imperfect	trustais /tʁys.tɛ/	trustais /tʁys.tɛ/	trustait /tʁys.tɛ/	trustions /tʁys.tjɔ̃/	trustiez /tʁys.tje/	trustaient /tʁys.tɛ/
	past historic2	trustai /tʁys.te/	trustas /tʁys.ta/	trusta /tʁys.ta/	trustâmes /tʁys.tam/	trustâtes /tʁys.tat/	trustèrent /tʁys.tɛʁ/
	future	trusterai /tʁys.tə.ʁe/	trusteras /tʁys.tə.ʁa/	trustera /tʁys.tə.ʁa/	trusterons /tʁys.tə.ʁɔ̃/	trusterez /tʁys.tə.ʁe/	trusteront /tʁys.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trusterais /tʁys.tə.ʁɛ/	trusterais /tʁys.tə.ʁɛ/	trusterait /tʁys.tə.ʁɛ/	trusterions /tʁys.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	trusteriez /tʁys.tə.ʁje/	trusteraient /tʁys.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	truste /tʁyst/	trustes /tʁyst/	truste /tʁyst/	trustions /tʁys.tjɔ̃/	trustiez /tʁys.tje/	trustent /tʁyst/
	imperfect2	trustasse /tʁys.tas/	trustasses /tʁys.tas/	trustât /tʁys.ta/	trustassions /tʁys.ta.sjɔ̃/	trustassiez /tʁys.ta.sje/	trustassent /tʁys.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	truste /tʁyst/	—	trustons /tʁys.tɔ̃/	trustez /tʁys.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

References

• “truster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.