The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TRUST
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More clues leading to the result TRUST
- In which money may be kept tied up, you say?
- Faith bound to be heard
- Confidence bound to be picked up
- Money in such a fund may be tied up, it’s said
- Faith‘s tied up, we’re told
- Bound, we’re told, to give hope
- Faith is tied up on the telephone?
- Faith to decay after time
- Belief supported in speech
- Care for Faith
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The straight part
We know that "Faith" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case faith = trust.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TRUST mean?
TRUST noun- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- Trustworthiness, reliability.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.
- A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
- To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- To show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- (followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- To risk; to venture confidently.
- To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
- Secure, safe.
- Faithful, dependable.
- Of or relating to a trust.