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fiduciary

UK/fɪˈdjuːʃ.i.əɹ.i//fəˈduːʃ.i.eɹ.i/

fiduciary adjective: relating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.

Adjective

fiduciary (not comparable)

  1. Relating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.
    • a fiduciary contract
    • a fiduciary duty
  2. Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities.
    • Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 63
  3. (nonstandard) Accepted as a trusted reference such as a point, value, or marker; fiducial.

Noun

fiduciary (plural fiduciaries)

  1. One who holds something in trust for another.
    • “We focus on sustainability not because we’re environmentalists, but because we are capitalists and fiduciaries to our clients,” Mr. Fink wrote.2022 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Michael J. de la Merced, quoting Larry Fink, “It’s Not ‘Woke’ for Businesses to Think Beyond Profit, BlackRock Chief Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    trustee
  2. One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.

fiduciary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Nepali

fiduciary in Hindi

प्रत्ययी

fiduciary in Tamil

நம்பகமான, பொறுப்பான, அறங்காவலர்

fiduciary in Malayalam

ഫിഡ്യൂഷ്യറി, ഫിഡ്യുഷ്യറി

fiduciary in Nepali

प्रत्ययी
More languagesFewer languages
fiduciary in Indonesian
fidusier
fiduciary in Persian
امانت

Examples of fiduciary in a sentence

  • The executive imprudently authorized the capital reallocation without conducting a due diligence audit, thereby exposing the firm to significant fiduciary risk.
  • The company’s charter bluntly states that OpenAI’s “primary fiduciary duty is to humanity,” not to investors or even employees.
  • It is also called fiduciary money, as it is accepted as money on the basis of trust between the payer and payee.

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Synonyms of fiduciary

Forms of fiduciary

pluralfiduciaries

Origin of fiduciary

From Latin fīdūciārius (“held in trust”), from fīdūcia (“trust”).

Words formed from fiduciary

Phrases with fiduciary

Questions about fiduciary

What does fiduciary mean?
Fiduciary means relating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.
What is fiduciary in Hindi?
Fiduciary in Hindi is प्रत्ययी. See Fiduciary meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fiduciary?
Fiduciary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce fiduciary?
Fiduciary is pronounced /fɪˈdjuːʃ.i.əɹ.i/ (UK).

Words near fiduciary in the dictionary

  1. fiducializations
  2. fiducially
  3. fiducials
  4. fiduciaries
  5. fiduciarily
  6. fiduciary
  7. fiduciary duties
  8. fiduciary duty
  9. fidus Achates
  10. fidya
  11. fidyah

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fiduciary (page history and authors); fiduciary (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fiduciary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiduciary (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fiduciary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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