a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges
<noun.person> [ adj ]
worthy of trust or belief
<adj.all> a trustworthy report an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion
Trusty \Trust"y\, a. [Compar. {Trustier}; superl. {Trustiest}.] 1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.
Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak.
2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.
His trusty sword he called to his aid. --Spenser.
3. Involving trust; as, a trusty business. [R.] --Shak.
When the president last week came under pressure from the Gaullists to resign, he turned to two trusty Socialists to communicate his views.
Is already effectively running for the presidency to succeed Mitterand in 1995, and wants to place government in hands of his trusty lieutenant, Edouard Balladur.
Even trusty oil stocks are crumbling: Chevron tumbled to a new low for the year in late Big Board trading yesterday, slipping 75 cents to $64.
Several of the songs _ "Kool and the Gang," "Going Home Tomorrow," "Hard Road to Travel" _ have been in his live show for years, lasting as long as the trusty white Fender guitar he's owned since the late '60s.
Market professionals add that another trusty buyer of old, the $7 billion, Swiss-based pension fund for the United Nations, also has a diminished appetite for Eurobonds.
"Basically, if you've got inmate labor there's always a potential for problems," Vick acknowledged. "But being a trusty is a privilege, not a right.
Among those banned was a debtor who became a trusty, driving the prison truck to town on errands.