trustify

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verb

To organize into a trust; To transfer ownership to a trust managed by trustees.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbtrustify (third-person singular simple present trustifies, present participle trustifying, simple past and past participle trustified)

present singular third person trustifies · participle present trustifying · participle past trustified · past trustified

  1. To organize into a trust; To transfer ownership to a trust managed by trustees.

    Those are pretty desperate and far-reaching powers. The whole aim of the Agricultural Marketing Act is to " trustify " producers.

    1931, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)., page 398
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    First, let the concentration continue as now, let Morgan or his industrial successor trustify all the industries and make himself master of them all, then let prosperity continue till over-production becomes excessive, and let the inevitable panic devastate the land, and then the workers will arise, overthrow Morgan, take control of the industrines in the name of the people, and establish Socialism.

    1903, Wilshire's Magazine - Issues 60-65, page 4

    The bills we have under consideration, gentlemen, propose to place in competition with foreign countries the products of the farmer and ranchman, the only industries of our country impossible to trustify.

    1911, Congressional Serial Set, page 695

    Since no pedagogic J. P. Morgan could "trustify" the education industry, schools had to compete in a buyer's market by using winning football teams to attract a viable share of student enrollments, alumni contributions and public funds.

    1981, Canadian Review of American Studies - Volume 12, page 45

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