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trustee

[truh-stee] / trʌˈsti /


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Campbell must take some responsibility for failures to maintain minutes and file accounts on time - but that was not enough to disqualify the model as a charity trustee, the tribunal said.

From BBC ● 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

She said that as “responsible stewards” of district resources, trustee actions “are often under scrutiny either formally or informally.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Employees, exhibitors, basic cable distributors and others could report concerns to the trustee or to the states, and the combined company would be barred from retaliating against them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The various CDOs you make from the bonds will go bad not right then but after some trustee sorts out whether there will ever be enough cash to pay them off.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Campbell appealed, saying one of her fellow trustees, lawyer Bianka Hellmich, forged her signature and impersonated her using a fake email address to misdirect money that was intended for the charity.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Five candidates are vying for Seat 2 on the board of trustees for the Los Angeles Community College District, where they will oversee some 200,000 students and an annual budget around $10 billion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Trusts are usually written in very conditional, flexible language to account for all future possible scenarios and last through several generations of trustees and beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

The law that created the center, he said, makes no distinction between the powers of different trustees, and it doesn’t permit the board to discriminate between them on powers, including the right to vote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The alarming news concerned a shady character who had recently joined the Swanburne board of trustees.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

In February, 1918, all but 23 shares were obtained, trusteed and a "plan of mutualization" was practically accomplished.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We trusteed and trusteed and trusteed," reported the President after the board meeting.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the trusteed stock was voted in a block in favor of the plan, Trustee Thornley being unable to swing the other three trustees to his side.

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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