BREACH OF TRUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breach of trust mean? 

• BREACH OF TRUST (noun)
  The noun BREACH OF TRUST has 1 sense:

1. violation (either through fraud or negligence) by a trustee of a duty that equity requires of him

  Familiarity information: BREACH OF TRUST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREACH OF TRUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Violation (either through fraud or negligence) by a trustee of a duty that equity requires of him

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("breach of trust" is a kind of...):

breach of contract (a breach of a legal duty; failure to do something that is required in a contract)

 Context examples 

I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the greatest aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)