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trustee vs trusty

trustee

Definitions

noun

  1. members of a governing board
  2. a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit

Examples

However, the trustees do have a responsibility to ensure that the centre's income is deployed in the most effective manner.

He says the Pension Funds Act should require that trustees have the qualities of honesty and integrity, the competence to fulfil the duties of a trustee, a minimum academic qualification, such as matric, and some relevant experience.

Martha became a trustee because she wanted the perspective of a professional educator on the board.

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trusty

Definitions

noun

  1. a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges

adjective

  1. worthy of trust or belief

Examples

Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? —

We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed".

Truly, Ranald, my trusty friend," said Dalgetty, "I will not deny that the case may be soon my own; for I am so forfoughen (being, as

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