Steward

/ˈstjuː.əːd/ · noun

Meaning

A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
2. (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
3. (dated) A flight attendant, especially male.
4. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
5. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
6. Someone responsible for organizing an event
7. A bartender.
8. A fiscal agent of certain bodies.

Example Sentences

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.

Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, a Democrat from Middlesex County, said, “It’s an uncomfortable situation,” but added that Mr. Codey is nevertheless “ably stewarding the state.”

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• stewards
• stewarding
• stewarded

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