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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary;
- Example: "it is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for personal gain"


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another);
- Example: "a fiduciary contract"
- Example: "in a fiduciary capacity"
- Example: "fiducial power"
[syn: fiduciary, fiducial]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\ (? or ?), a. [L. fiduciarus, fr.
   fiducia: cf. F. fiduciaire. See Fiducial.]
   1. Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting;
      faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity. "Fiduciary
      obedience." --Howell.
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   2. Holding, held, or founded, in trust. --Spelman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\, n.
   1. One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
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            Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon
            those whose fiduciaries they are.     --Jer. Taylor.
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   2. (Theol.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without
      works; an Antinomian. --Hammond.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fiduciary
    adj 1: relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the
           holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary
           contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power"
           [syn: fiduciary, fiducial]
    n 1: a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it
         is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for
         personal gain"