confidence
♦♦ con|fi|dence /k'ɒnfɪdəns/
1 [N-UNCOUNT] usu N in n
If you have confidence in someone, you feel that you can trust them.
I have every confidence in you...
This has contributed to the lack of confidence in the police...
His record on ceasefires inspires no confidence.
= faith
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
If you have confidence, you feel sure about your abilities, qualities, or ideas.
The band is on excellent form and brimming with confidence...
I always thought the worst of myself and had no confidence whatsoever.
3 [N-UNCOUNT] usu with N
If you can say something with confidence, you feel certain it is correct.
I can say with confidence that such rumors were totally groundless.
4 [N-UNCOUNT] usu in N
If you tell someone something in confidence, you tell them a secret.
We told you all these things in confidence...
Even telling Lois seemed a betrayal of confidence.
[PHRASE] V inflects
If you take someone into your confidence, you tell them a secret.
If your daughter takes you into her confidence, don't rush off to tell your husband.
5
see also vote of no confidencecon|fi|dence game (confidence games)
[N-COUNT]
A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick. (mainly AM)con|fi|dence man (confidence men)
[N-COUNT]
A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them. (mainly AM)
= con mancon|fi|dence trick (confidence tricks)
[N-COUNT]
A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use confidence game)vote of con|fi|dence (votes of confidence)
1 [N-COUNT] usu sing
A vote of confidence is a vote in which members of a group are asked to indicate that they still support the person or group in power, usually the government.
The Indian Prime Minister, V P Singh, lost a vote of confidence in the Indian parliament.
2 [N-COUNT] usu sing
A vote of confidence is something that you say or do which shows that you approve of or support a person or a group.
The ten-year deal is a vote of confidence in coal-fired power stations.
1 [N-UNCOUNT] usu N in n
If you have confidence in someone, you feel that you can trust them.
I have every confidence in you...
This has contributed to the lack of confidence in the police...
His record on ceasefires inspires no confidence.
= faith
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
If you have confidence, you feel sure about your abilities, qualities, or ideas.
The band is on excellent form and brimming with confidence...
I always thought the worst of myself and had no confidence whatsoever.
3 [N-UNCOUNT] usu with N
If you can say something with confidence, you feel certain it is correct.
I can say with confidence that such rumors were totally groundless.
4 [N-UNCOUNT] usu in N
If you tell someone something in confidence, you tell them a secret.
We told you all these things in confidence...
Even telling Lois seemed a betrayal of confidence.
[PHRASE] V inflects
If you take someone into your confidence, you tell them a secret.
If your daughter takes you into her confidence, don't rush off to tell your husband.
5
see also vote of no confidencecon|fi|dence game (confidence games)
[N-COUNT]
A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick. (mainly AM)con|fi|dence man (confidence men)
[N-COUNT]
A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them. (mainly AM)
= con mancon|fi|dence trick (confidence tricks)
[N-COUNT]
A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use confidence game)vote of con|fi|dence (votes of confidence)
1 [N-COUNT] usu sing
A vote of confidence is a vote in which members of a group are asked to indicate that they still support the person or group in power, usually the government.
The Indian Prime Minister, V P Singh, lost a vote of confidence in the Indian parliament.
2 [N-COUNT] usu sing
A vote of confidence is something that you say or do which shows that you approve of or support a person or a group.
The ten-year deal is a vote of confidence in coal-fired power stations.