trust company


noun

a company or corporation organized to exercise the functions of a trustee, but usually engaging also in other banking and financial activities.

Origin of trust company

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example sentences from the Web for trust company

  • Slight differences between the requirements for trust-company reserves and those for state-bank reserves are chiefly of two kinds.

    Readings in Money and Banking |Chester Arthur Phillips
  • Bank and trust-company stocks possess one characteristic in higher degree than other classes of stock.

    How to Invest Money |George Garr Henry
  • The Illinois bank act of 1887 provided that any bank might have power to execute trusts by complying with the trust-company law.

    Readings in Money and Banking |Chester Arthur Phillips
  • In Mississippi any bank with a paid-up capital of $100,000 may do a trust-company business.

    Readings in Money and Banking |Chester Arthur Phillips

British Dictionary definitions for trust company

trust company

noun

a commercial bank or other enterprise organized to perform trustee functions Also called: trust corporation