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Treuhänder — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • curator noun Someone who manages, organizes, and oversees a collection, such as at a museum, gallery, or archive.
  • fiduciary noun A person or organisation legally required to manage money or property in someone else's best interests rather than their own, such as a trustee, executor or certain financial advisers.
  • stakeholder noun A person, group or organisation with an interest in a project, business or decision, and who is affected by how it turns out.
  • trustee noun A person or organisation legally responsible for managing property or money on behalf of someone else.

Senses

Treuhänder is used for these senses in English:

  • curator One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
  • fiduciary (legal) One who holds a thing in trust for another.
  • stakeholder (legal) A person such as a trustee, escrow agent or garnishee, who holds money or assets under trust for another party in a contractual agreement or as part of a claim.
  • trustee (trust law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals (beneficiaries), or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.

fiduciary — full definition

  1. noun A person or organisation legally required to manage money or property in someone else's best interests rather than their own, such as a trustee, executor or certain financial advisers.
  2. adjective Relating to the legal duty of trust and loyalty owed by someone who acts on another person's behalf.

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