trustee

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: trus=tee

CIDE DICTIONARY

trustee, n. 

 A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.  [1913 Webster]

Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]

trustee, v. t. 

•  To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.  [1913 Webster]
•  To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

trustee, n.
1 Law a person or member of a board given control or powers of administration of property in trust with a legal obligation to administer it solely for the purposes specified.
2 a State made responsible for the government of an area.

Derivative

trusteeship n.

THESAURUS

trustee

accepter, accountant, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, bookkeeper, bursar, cashier, cashkeeper, chamberlain, comptroller, consignee, controller, curator, depositary, depository, fiduciary, financial officer, getter, hearer, holder, liquidator, listener, looker, obtainer, payee, paymaster, procurer, purse bearer, purser, receiver, recipient, spectator, steward, taker, treasurer, viewer

ROGET THESAURUS

trustee

Consignee

N consignee, trustee, nominee, committee, agent, delegate, commissary, commissioner, emissary, envoy, commissionaire, messenger, diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique, embassy, ambassador, embassador, representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, functionary, placeman, curator, treasurer, factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business, factotum, caretaker, dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta, negotiator, go-between, middleman, under agent, employe, servant, referee, arbitrator, traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur, touter, commercial traveler, drummer, traveling man, newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.

Possessor

N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.

Treasurer

N treasurer, bursar, bursary, purser, purse bearer, cash keeper, banker, depositary, questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller, cambist, money changer, financier, Secretary of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.