Cryptic crossword clue
Faith is tied up on the telephone? 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TRUST

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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.

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What does TRUST mean?

1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
4. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
5. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
6. Trustworthiness, reliability.
7. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
8. The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
3. To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
4. To show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
5. To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
7. (followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
8. To risk; to venture confidently.
9. To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
10. To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

1. Secure, safe.
2. Faithful, dependable.
3. Of or relating to a trust.

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