A person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit.

synonym: legal guardian.

Roget 801: treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor^†, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist^†; money changer etc. (merchant) 797.    financier.    Secretary of the Treasury; Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.    ... show more

Roget 758: consignee, trustee, nominee, committee.    agent, delegate; commissary, commissioner; emissary, envoy, commissionaire [Fr.]; messenger etc. 534.    diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique [Fr.], embassy; ambassador, embassador^†; representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio^†, charge d'affaires [Fr.], attache.    vicegerent etc. (deputy) 759; plenipotentiary.    functionary, placeman^†, curator; treasurer etc. 801; factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business; factotum etc. (director) 694; caretaker; dalal^†, dubash^†, garnishee, gomashta^†.    negotiator, go-between; middleman; under agent, employe; servant etc. 746; referee, arbitrator etc. (judge) 967.    traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur [Fr.], touter^†, commercial traveler, drummer [U.S.], traveling man.    newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.    ... show more

Roget 779: possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession etc. 777; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee^†; zemindar^†, ryot^†; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life.    owner; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator^†, master, mistress, lord.    land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord; lord of the manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour^†, landed gentry, mesne lord^†; planter.    cestui-que-trust [Fr.], beneficiary, mortgagor.    grantee, feoffee^†, releasee [Law], relessee^†, devisee; legatee, legatary^†.    trustee; holder of the legal estate &c.; mortgagee.    right owner, rightful owner.    [Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress; inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner^†, remainderman^†.    ... show more

Dutch: mandataris, beheerder, trustee

Members of a governing board.

synonym: regent.