(n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
(n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
(a.) Traitorous.
(v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Worst of all, it invites politicians to identify their opponents as traitors to the nation.
(2) It’s all they are interested in – identifying traitors.
(3) Was Boris Nemtsov killed because in Russia opposition activists are deemed traitors?
(4) The independent review was set up by Steve Williams, the new Police Federation chairman, who has been called a traitor and a dictator, and faced a no-confidence motion for trying to drive through a programme of reform of the organisation after he took up the role earlier this year.
(5) Evra had earlier railed against the "traitor" in the squad's midst, "who told the press what was said" at half-time against Mexico.
(6) We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr.” Responding to Cotton, a White House official said it was worth considering that the Republican supported the presidency of “someone who publicly praised WikiLeaks” and who “encouraged a foreign government to hack his opponent”, in reference to Trump.
(7) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
(8) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
(9) The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
(10) But as the night echoed with chants denouncing Taliban apologists as traitors,some in the crowd quietly admitted their doubts.
(11) It is hard to imagine a less traitorous motive for whistleblowing, or a more powerful public interest in what was revealed.
(12) Mohammad Javad Zarif, his foreign minister, was labelled a traitor and threatened with being buried in the concrete to be used to decommission the Arak nuclear reactor .
(13) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
(14) But Adam Holloway asked leftie David Winnick if he'd think Snowden a traitor if a British city was nuked by terrorists (duh?).
(15) Sessions denied what he called “very painful” claims at the time that he condemned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as “un-American” and described a white civil rights attorney as a race traitor.
(16) When Murphy resumed his 100-town tour off Edinburgh’s Princes Street on Tuesday he was energetic and courteous, praising both sides for their patriotism: “No one in this debate is a traitor, no one is a quisling.” The remark was directed at angry, even threatening hecklers ( he posted the evidence on YouTube ) who had called Murphy both and forced him to suspend the tour temporarily.
(17) We didn’t want to make this journey but in Baghdad I worked as a translator for a British oil company and people saw me as a traitor.
(18) Inside the cavernous hall, Cameron kicked off with a joke that failed, tragically, to rise – he felt a "bit of a traitor", he said, because "here I am in a bakery, but the thing is, I went out the other day and bought myself my own breadmaker".
(19) He is a traitor because, by a cold-blooded and calculated act, he attacked your country by significantly damaging its capacity to defend itself from its enemies, and in doing so, he put your citizen’s lives at risk.
(20) Nobody knows if he defected or he's a traitor or he was kidnapped.
Trust
Definition:
(n.) Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
(n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.
(n.) Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
(n.) That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
(n.) The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
(n.) That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
(n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.
(n.) An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.
(a.) Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
(n.) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
(n.) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
(n.) To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
(n.) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
(n.) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
(n.) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
(n.) To risk; to venture confidently.
(v. i.) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
(v. i.) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
(v. i.) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
(2) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
(3) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(4) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(5) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
(6) "The value the public place on the BBC is actually rising," said Lyons, citing research carried out by the BBC Trust earlier this year.
(7) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
(8) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
(9) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(10) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
(11) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
(12) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
(13) In addition we also suggested that he was in charge of the company's privacy policy and that he now trusts open source software where he can examine the underlying code himself.
(14) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(15) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(16) We trust that others will be stimulated to investigate further applications of this instrumental approach to problems in cell biology.
(17) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
(18) "I agree [with the policy] if you live in a climate of trust," said Mourinho.
(19) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
(20) Its findings will be presented to the BBC Trust as well as to both Houses of Parliament.