Trusteeship (Noun)
Meaning 1
The position of trustee.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The board of directors was granted trusteeship over the charitable foundation's assets.
- Her expertise in finance made her an ideal candidate for the trusteeship of the pension fund.
- The court appointed a new trusteeship to manage the estate after the previous trustee was found to be incompetent.
- The company's shareholders voted to dissolve the trusteeship and take control of the assets themselves.
- The trusteeship was established to ensure that the historic mansion was preserved for future generations.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
A dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The General Assembly granted a trusteeship to France to oversee the affairs of the island nation for the next five years.
- Somalia was a United Nations Trusteeship from 1949 until it gained its independence in 1960.
- Nauru gained its independence in 1968, after 60 years under a series of German and then Australian trusteeships.
- Trusteeship for the colony had been vested in Britain under the supervision of the League of Nations in the 1920s.
- South Korea served as the administrative power in a United Nations Trusteeship of a country under an emergency decree, maintaining economic interests but only partly sovereignty over this strategically situated client.