Meaning of Steward | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An English surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Stewart.
   countable, uncountable
2. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
3. A village in Lee County, Illinois, United States.
   countable, uncountable
4. A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
   historical
5. A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
6. A flight attendant, especially male.
   dated
7. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
8. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
9. Someone responsible for organizing an event
10. A bartender.
11. A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
12. A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
13. An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
14. A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
    Scotland
15. Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
16. A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents.
17. A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.

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Examples

“There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.”

“The gay Kibbutzniks I met were all ex-Kibbutzniks who were curretly holding jobs as El-Al stewards or in some similarly classic gay professions.”

“a steward in a Methodist church”

“These lands must have been retained by some earlier Steward, perhaps Walter II (1204-41), when most of Erskine had been made into a fief for Henry, first known ancestor of the Erskine family.”

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