Entrust vs. Trustee — What's the Difference?

Entrust Corp., formerly Entrust Datacard, provides financial institutions, national governments, corporate enterprises and other organizations with technologies to establish trusted identities and conduct highly secure transactions. Examples of the company's diverse offerings include software and hardware used to issue financial cards, produce e-passports; authenticate users looking to access secure networks or conduct financial transactions; provide trusted certificates for websites, mobile credentials, and connected devices; and hardware security modules and software for secure encryption and key management solutions.

Trustee (or the holding of a trusteeship) is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, is a synonym for anyone in a position of trust and so can refer to any person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility to transfer the title of ownership to the person named as the new owner, in a trust instrument, called a beneficiary. A trustee can also refer to a person who is allowed to do certain tasks but not able to gain income, although that is untrue.

To give over (something) to another for care, protection, or performance

(Law) The person in a trust relationship who holds title to property for the benefit of another.

To give as a trust to (someone)

A member of a board elected or appointed to direct the funds and policy of an institution.

(transitive) To trust to the care of.

A country responsible for supervising a trust territory. See Usage Note at -ee1.

See Intrust.

To place (property) in the care of a trustee.

Confer a trust upon;

To function or serve as a trustee.

Put into the care or protection of someone;

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.

A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

(transitive) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee.

(transitive) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.

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.

To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.

A person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit

Members of a governing board