trustees
trus-TEEZ/tɹʌsˈtiːz/
- 1Plural of trustee.
The foundation's trustees approved this year's round of grants.
Several trustees resigned after the audit raised concerns.
Note
A regular plural, but the spelling does double duty. Trustees is also the present-tense form of the verb trustee, as in a creditor who trustees a debtor's wages, or an owner who trustees an estate. As a noun it often names a board acting together, as when the trustees of a foundation decide jointly. It therefore takes a plural verb: the trustees have approved, never has.
trustees is a form of trustee
trustee, noun: A person legally entrusted with property to manage it for the benefit of named beneficiaries or for a public purpose. Full entry
- Forms
- trusteetrustees plural
- Spelling
- trustee → trustees: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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