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steward¹

  • /ˈstjuː.əːd/
  • [ˈstjʊu̯.əːd]
  • /ˈst͡ʃuː.əd/
  • [ˈst͡ʃʊu̯.əːd]
  • /ˈstu.ɚd/ US
  • [ˈstʊu̯.ɚd] ~ [ˈstʊu̯.ɹ̩d] US

Where it comes from

From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.

noun stewards

  1. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
  2. historical A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
  3. A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions. 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.
  4. dated A flight attendant, especially male. 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.
  5. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
  6. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
  7. Someone responsible for organizing an event
  8. A bartender.
  9. A fiscal agent of certain bodies. a steward in a Methodist church
  10. A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
  11. An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
  12. Scotland A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. 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.
  13. Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
  14. 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.
  15. A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.

verb stewards · stewarding · stewarded

  1. To act as the steward or caretaker of (something) 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.”

Steward²

Where it comes from

From steward.

proper noun Stewards · Stewart

  1. countable, uncountable An English surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Stewart.
  2. countable, uncountable A village in Lee County, Illinois, United States.

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