a trustee invested with a freehold estate to hold in possession for a purpose, typically a charitable one (尤指慈善目的)受托保管终身保有制产业者 ■(historical)(in feudal law) a person to whom a grant of freehold property is made (史)(封建法律)采邑承受人
语源
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French feoffe 'enfeoffed', past participle of feoffer, variant of Old French fieffer (see feoffment)