noun
trust; corporate trust
Refers to a business trust, a legal arrangement where a group of companies is managed by a single board of trustees. This is a specific economic term.
企業合同は、市場の独占を防ぐために規制されることがある。
Corporate trusts are sometimes regulated to prevent market monopolies.
The loanword トラスト is more common in modern Japanese for the same concept, while 企業合同 is a formal, kanji-based term.
Compound of 企業 (enterprise) and 合同 (union, combination). The term is a direct translation of the English 'trust' in a business context.