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Synonyms for trustees
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : truh-stee |
Phonetic Transcription : trʌˈsti |
Définition of trustees
Origin :- "person who is responsible for the property of another," 1640s, from trust (v.) + -ee.
- noun administrator
- "You will have the other trustees to advise with," said his mother.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- But it could not be amiss, he thought, to acquaint my two trustees, that I intended to assume it.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- If you blame me for want of principle: I say that we're Trustees.
- Extract from : « Strife (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- Several of the children, among them those of one of the trustees, were absent.
- Extract from : « Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight » by Mathew Joseph Holt
- You see, I traveled into a deestrict and inquired for the trustees.
- Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various
- Any way, I guess they could hardly do it without the consent of the trustees.
- Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss
- By a vote of the trustees in 1900 the number of women was limited to 20 per cent.
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
- It is under the control of five trustees, two of whom are women.
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
- There are serving at present one county superintendent and fifteen trustees.
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
- In 1900 they were made eligible to serve as trustees of town libraries.
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
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