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Trustee vs Warder - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between trustee and warder

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 warder is a guard, especially in a prison.

As a verb trustee

is to commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

trustee

English

(wikipedia trustee)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * board of trustees * public trustee

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

    • warder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A guard, especially in a prison.
  • (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
  • * 1595 , Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars
    • When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, / Casts down his warder to arrest them there.
  • * William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act 1, Scene 3
    • Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

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