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trustify

trustify verb: to organize into a trust; To transfer ownership to a trust managed by trustees.

Verb

trustify (third-person singular simple present trustifies, present participle trustifying, simple past and past participle trustified)

  1. To organize into a trust; To transfer ownership to a trust managed by trustees.
    • First, let the concentration continue as now, let Morgan or his industrial successor trustify all the industries and make himself master of them all, then let prosperity continue till over-production becomes excessive, and let the inevitable panic devastate the land, and then the workers will...1903, Wilshire's Magazine - Issues 60-65, page 4
    • The bills we have under consideration, gentlemen, propose to place in competition with foreign countries the products of the farmer and ranchman, the only industries of our country impossible to trustify.1911, Congressional Serial Set, page 695

Forms of trustify

third-person singular presenttrustifies
present participletrustifying
past participletrustified
pasttrustified

Origin of trustify

From trust + -ify.

Questions about trustify

What does trustify mean?
Trustify means to organize into a trust; To transfer ownership to a trust managed by trustees.
What part of speech is trustify?
Trustify is a verb.
What is the past tense of trustify?
The past tense of trustify is trustified.

Words near trustify in the dictionary

  1. trustiest
  2. trustification
  3. trustifications
  4. trustified
  5. trustifies
  6. trustify
  7. trustifying
  8. trustily
  9. trustin'
  10. trustiness
  11. trusting

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