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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit;
[syn: trustee, legal guardian]

2. members of a governing board;
[syn: regent, trustee]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trustee \Trus*tee"\, n. (Law) 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.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trustee \Trus*tee"\, v. t. 1. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

trustee n 1: a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit [syn: trustee, legal guardian] 2: members of a governing board [syn: regent, trustee]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

TRUSTEE, estates. A trustee is one to whom an estate has been conveyed in trust. 2. The trust estate is not subject to the specialty or judgment debts of the trustee, to the dower of his wife, or the curtesy of the husband of a female trustee. 3. With respect to the duties of trustees, it is held, in conformity to the old law of uses, that pernancy of the profits, execution of estates, and defence of the land, are the three great properties of a trust, so that the courts of chancery will compel trustees, 1. To permit the cestui que trust to receive the rents and profits of the land. 2. To execute such conveyances, in accordance with the provisions of the trust, as the cestui que trust shall direct. 3. To defend the title of the land in any court of law or equity. Cruise, Dig. tit. 12, c. 4, s. 4. 4. It has been judiciously remarked by Mr. Justice Story, 2 Eq. Jur. Sec. 1267, that in a great variety of cases, it is not easy to say what the duty of a trustee is; and that therefore, it often becomes indispensable for him, before he acts, to seek, the aid and direction of a court of equity. Fonb. Eq. book 2, c. 7, Sec. 2, and note c. Vide Vin. Ab. tit. Trusts, O, P, Q, R, S, T; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.