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Plural of trustee

regular plural

The plural of trustee is trustees.

Forms of trustee

Singulartrustee /tɹʌsˈtiː/
Pluraltrustees
Countablecountable

Trustees in a sentence

  • Who heads the board of trustees?From the entry head
  • However, the trustees (whether corporate or individual) should be located in The Bahamas.1975, Doing Business in the Bahamas, Price, Waterhouse, page 16. From the entry The Bahamas
  • Trustees of the University of North Carolina today accepted the voluntary retirements of Dr.1934 June 5, “Brooks And Foust Resign As U. N. C. Vice-Presidents: […]”, in The Daily Times-News, volume 46, number 83, Burlington, N.C.…. From the entry emeritus
  • I am never going to adopt the Uriah Heepish attitude toward trustees that characterized Mrs.1915, Jean Webster, Dear Enemy, Grosset & Dunlap, page 77. From the entry Uriah Heepish
  • “This is an important moment in our sport’s history,” said Chris Lau, chair of the IQA board of trustees, in a statement.2022 July 20, Adela Suliman, “Quidditch is now quadball, distancing game from J.K. Rowling, league says”, in The Washington Post. From the entry quadball

Meaning of trustee

  1. noun A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals (beneficiaries), or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.
  2. noun A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
  3. verb To commit (property) to the care of a trustee.

Full definition of trustee

Questions about the plural of trustee

What is the plural of trustee?
The plural of trustee is trustees.
Is trustee countable?
Trustee is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trustee (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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