With possessive adjective: a person in whom or thing in which confidence is placed; an object or source of trust; = trust, n. 1b. Obsolete.
With possessive adjective: a person in whom or thing in which confidence is placed; an object or source of trust. Obsolete.
a system under which a person is relied on to act honestly without being supervised (originally (U.S.) with reference to abstention from cheating…