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trustee

[truh-stee] / trʌˈsti /


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For families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

David Panzirer, a trustee of the Helmsley Charitable Trust, resigned in protest as a board observer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

However, a tribunal said on Thursday, external that the most serious instances of misconduct in the charity "were concealed" from Campbell by a fellow trustee.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Student success: Cabrera would take steps to ensure student services are more readily available and the public has better visibility and say in trustee decisions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"Lie, sir? Lie to him, lie to a trustee, sir? Me?"

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

An Anthropic spokeswoman said the notice requirement doesn’t give trustees veto powers, but declined to elaborate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The vote of five siblings to sell the shares triggered the termination clause in the trust, and the filing argues that the trust doesn’t grant trustees discretion to disregard a valid vote to terminate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Social Security trustees projected in June that benefits would be cut by 22%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

"It is imperative that Cornell be willing to examine itself with the same rigor we expect of others," Anne Meinig Smalling, chair of the university's board of trustees, said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

“My name is Tiffany Halliday, and I am one of the trustees of this account. I would suggest you be truthful in responding to all of my questions. Now, who found the key?”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

It marked a stark change from April 2016, when the university’s board of trusteed voted to keep the former president’s name on campus buildings and programs.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2020

General de Gaulle had already made it plain that France intended to be not one of the trusteed but one of the trustees.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to President Batten & friends this right belongs to N. W. Ayer, the corporation, as owner of 117,000 trusteed shares.

From Time Magazine Archive

Already the Government has got back from the Chase National Bank with which it was trusteed, the half million dollars which Jackson Barnett gave the Baptist Home missions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only other individual owner of trusteed stock is George H. Thornley, who has 39,000 shares.

From Time Magazine Archive

I know that I registered a vow that I would never again be trustee of anything without trusteeing it in fact.

From The Making of an American by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

She informed the executors that she wished to make over half her property to the old man, trusteeing it so that it should descend to his nephew.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest


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