trusteeship

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Other forms: trusteeships

Trusteeship is the duty of holding something in trust for others. Under trusteeship.

The holder gets no benefit, which is the whole point and the whole obligation. A trusteeship can be personal or international, and both mean holding for somebody else.

Definitions of trusteeship

1nountrusteeshipThe duty of holding something in trust for others.C2
“The trusteeship ran for nineteen years and paid nobody anything.”

trusteeship is a duty.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*skey-
Middle English
schip
English
ship
English, today
trusteeship

From trustee + -ship. ship comes from Middle English schip. From Middle English chip, schepe, schip, schup, scip, scippe, ship, shup, ssip, from Old English sċip, sċyp, from Proto-West Germanic skip, from Proto-Germanic skipą (“ship; tub, vessel”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European skey- (“to split”). More at shift. 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

trusteeship in the wild

In December 1945, the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers resulted in an agreement on a five-year, four-power Korean trusteeship.
Division of Korea
Until 1962 Rwanda had been a part of the United Nations Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi under the trusteeship of Belgium.
List of ambassadors of the United States to Rwanda
In June 1962 the UN General Assembly terminated the Belgian trusteeship and granted full independence to Rwanda and Burundi.
List of ambassadors of the United States to Rwanda
Until 1962 Burundi had been a part of the United Nations Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi under the trusteeship of Belgium.
List of ambassadors of the United States to Burundi
Chapter XII of the United Nations Charter deals with the international trusteeship system.
Chapter XII of the United Nations Charter

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