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[truh-stee] / trʌˈsti /


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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Instead, Campbell had been the victim of deception perpetrated by her co-trustee, Bianka Hellmich, who was disqualified from being a charity trustee for nine years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Model Naomi Campbell has won her appeal against a ban on being a charity trustee, after a tribunal ruled that she was unaware of misconduct at her charity Fashion for Relief.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Community College trustee and a city of L.A. charter reform commissioner before being elected to the state Assembly in 1998.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I imagine you will be, as soon as the swelling in your legs goes down,” the trustee said.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"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

An investigation by the university’s board of trustees cleared Kotlikoff of wrongdoing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The charity has already reduced staffing costs, but trustees said it would close permanently unless it raised £25,000 by the end of October.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Experience: Pearlman says she served on the board of trustees from 2001 to 2017 and taught part-time at all nine colleges before and after her time on the board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He wrote a letter to the twelve men he’d chosen to serve as its board of trustees, outlining his wishes.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

The National Association of Manufacturers notes that scandals have centered in labor and jointly controlled welfare funds, insists that trusteed company pension plans should be left alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

The estate belongs not to him, is trusteed to his son John.

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

President Batten and Director Clarence L. Jordan each own 500 shares of the trusteed Ayer stock in addition to their other Ayer 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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