Trustee vs Fiduciary - What's the difference?
trustee | fiduciary |
A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
To commit (property) to the care of a ; as, to trustee an estate.
To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
(legal) Related to trusts and trustees.
Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 63:
(legal) One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
(theology) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.
As nouns the difference between trustee and fiduciary
is that trustee is a person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process while fiduciary is one who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.As a verb trustee
is to commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.As an adjective fiduciary is
related to trusts and trustees.trustee
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(wikipedia trustee)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* board of trustees * public trusteeVerb
(en verb)fiduciary
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a fiduciary contract
- a fiduciary duty
- Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money.