(chiefly US) Originally, a group of experts who advise a government, often informally. / More recently, any group of experts assembled to give advice.

(chiefly Britain) A group of experts who discuss events in public, especially on television or radio.

(law) A device by which a person establishes a trust for which there is neither a charitable purpose, nor a private beneficiary to enforce the trust (such as a trust for the care of pets or maintenance of cemetery plots), for which trustee is bound by honor, but not by law, to carry out the wishes of the trustor.

(law) A trust which is funded by the remainder of the trustors estate left over after all specific bequests have been funded.

(law) A trust that is implied in law, under which property entrusted to one party is not to be used for the benefit of that party, but for that party to use for the benefit of a third party.

A trust created by operation of law where one party takes physical possession of property, but is legally required to use that property for the benefit of another party, in the absence of a written agreement.

Have general faith in the good intentions of others, but ultimately you can only rely on things you have verified yourself.

(Canada, law, finance) A trust that protects the assets of a disabled person (typically an inheritance) and gives the trustee absolute discretion in how to use those assets to assist the beneficiary.

(US slang) A group of overweight or obese people.

(law) Property held by a trustee in a trust established by a grantor for a beneficiary. / Loosely, a substantial inheritance of money.