What is the appropriate preposition for the following sentence?
- Is having trust in your employer important to you?
- Is having trust for your employer important to you?
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Sign up to join this communityWhat is the appropriate preposition for the following sentence?
- Is having trust in your employer important to you?
- Is having trust for your employer important to you?
'Trust', being a general feeling rather than a single abstract object, would be followed by "in".
Words like 'propensity', on the other hand, are singular abstract nouns, as in: "He has a propensity for gardening."
The expression 'trust for' changes the meaning. There the word trust is taken to mean:
"...property interest held by one person for the benefit of another" - See Merriam-Webster trust entry 3a