Trustee: Definition and part of speech

Trustee

  1. v. t. To attach (a debtor’s wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
  2. n. 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.
  3. v. t. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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