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noun

trustee

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

In a sentence

Six example sentences with trustee, each labelled with its topic.

  • A trustee must invest the fund conservatively, even when an heir insists that the market rewards bolder choices.

    Finance

  • The gallery trustees voted to sell one canvas so the endowment could cover heating for the next decade.

    Art

  • Courts remove a trustee who mixes personal accounts with the money placed in their care.

    Law

  • For twenty years the colony of Georgia was run by a board of trustees who met in London and wrote its rules from there.

    History

  • The bankruptcy trustee took control of the failed retailer's assets and began selling stock to repay the creditors.

    Business

  • Hospital trustees hold the endowment for patients' benefit, so they refused to sell the land even when developers doubled the offer.

    Medicine

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