v. Commercial slang. [f. TRUST sb. + -[I]FY.] trans. To make into a trust; to form a trust of or in (a business): see TRUST sb. 7 b. Only in pa. pple. and ppl. a. Trustified. So Trustification, the formation of a trust.
1888. The Sun (N.Y.), 12 Aug., 8/3. The two largest mines in operation, in Kimberly, have been amalgamated, and a consolidation or Trustification of all the great mines in South Africa is looked for.
1894. Lucien Saniel, in Baltimore Sun, 4 Sept., 2/2. In any industry in which capital is concentrated or ‘trustified,’ such as railroads, iron mines, telegraph systems, sugar and so on, the old weapons of labor—the strike and the boycott—have become absolutely ineffective.
1902. Daily Chron., 7 Jan., 3/1. Great American manufacturing concerns not yet trustified.
1902. Fabian News, XII. 38/2. A somewhat novel danger in the trustification of industry.
1902. R. Donald in Westm. Gaz., 12 June, 1/3. Investors and speculators in the trustified interests.
1902. Daily Record & Mail, 22 Feb., 4. More than half the capital, means of production, and distribution in the United States, are ‘trustified’ in one form or another.
