entrustment

noun

Definition of entrustmentnext
as in consignment

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Recent Examples of entrustment Kenneth has been charged with obstructing official business and wrongful entrustment. — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026 Duncan Disposal, also named as a defendant in the lawsuit, is accused of vicarious liability, negligent hiring, retention and supervision, and negligent entrustment. — Nick Lentz, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026 The Constitution’s crown jewel was the entrustment of the power to take the nation to war exclusively to Congress, leaving to the president authority to respond unilaterally to sudden attacks that had already broken the peace. — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrustment
  1. consignment
  2. mandate
  3. empowerment
  4. accreditation
  5. delegation
  6. authorization
  7. commendation
  8. facilitation
Noun
  • The consignment is expected to anchor the upcoming auction season and includes paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Find trend-forward clothing at Give Grace or Belletique, and stop into The Collective for quality consignment pieces.
    — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of consignment
Noun
  • Will blue state legislators and governors protect them from its attempt at more governmental control over institutions, while red state policy makers embrace its far-reaching restrictions and mandates?
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • There are exceptions—most notably, the 2012 Obamacare ruling, when Roberts angered conservatives by finding a convoluted way to determine that the individual insurance mandate was constitutional.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of mandate
Noun
  • Because automation was tied to worker empowerment rather than displacement, factory workers actively partnered with engineers to optimize the robots, resulting in defect rates lower than those of their American competitors.
    — Jason Dressel, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • What starts as an art project becomes a journey of self-empowerment.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of empowerment
Noun
  • In announcing the upfront news, Reinhard also said the Media Rating Council has granted accreditation to the Netflix Ads Suite.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026
  • California hospices continued to do so, largely through accreditation, until this year.
    — Jason Henry, Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of accreditation
Noun
  • Not a loose email association, not a device cookie, and not a platform-local account assertion, but a genuine trust credential bound to the person who stands behind the delegation.
    — Raj Ananthanpillai, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • DeLauro, a colleague of Larson’s in the Connecticut delegation, has endorsed Larson.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of delegation
Noun
  • Her husband was arrested, charged with abuse of a corpse without authorization and taken to Plano City Jail.
    — S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The program began in 2024 with an administrative action by President Joe Biden, with no authorization from Congress.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of authorization
Noun
  • The novel earned commendations from authors such as Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
  • His contributions to Japanese cinema earned him the 2004 Kawakita Prize and a commendation from Japan’s Foreign Ministry in 2008.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 July 2026
Definition of commendation
Noun
  • The call for a tougher law-and-order approach has prompted multiple Republican states to pass laws that penalize homeless encampments or expand the facilitation of involuntary institutionalizations.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 29 July 2026
  • The job of facilitation was and is critical to keeping the mission and goals of the Initiative centered, first by Literacy in Community (LINC) and then transitioned to ExpandEd.
    — Read Alliance, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of facilitation

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“Entrustment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrustment. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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