fiduciary
Meaning of fiduciary
- involving trust, especially with regard to the relationship between a trustee and a beneficiary.
the company has a fiduciary duty to shareholders
- (of a paper currency) depending for its value on securities (as opposed to gold) or the reputation of the issuer.
noun
a trustee.
late 16th century (in the sense ‘something inspiring trust; credentials’): from Latin fiduciarius, from fiducia ‘trust’, from fidere ‘to trust’.
Information about fiduciary
- The plural form of fiduciary is: fiduciaries.
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Hyphenation of fiduciary
fidu-ciary
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- fiduciary is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
fiduciary synonyms
Meaning fiducial:
fiducial, property, belongings, holding
Translation of fiduciary
- Italian: fiduciario
- Spanish: fiduciario
- French: fiduciaire
- German: Treuhänder, treuhänderisch
- Portuguese: fiduciário
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