steward

plural stewards

1. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
   1. historicalA chief administrator of a medieval manor.

      Synonyms: bailiff, provost

2. nauticalA 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.

   1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC

3. datedA 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.

   1974 February 9, Joe, “Reactions”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 33, page 6

4. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.

   Synonyms: shop steward

5. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.

   Synonyms: caretaker, custodian, keeper, groundskeeper

6. Someone responsible for organizing an event
7. A bartender.
8. A fiscal agent of certain bodies.

   a steward in a Methodist church

9. A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
10. educationAn officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
11. ScotlandA 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.

    2001, The Innes Review

12. computingSomebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
13. hobbiesA 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.

    Synonyms: air steward, airline steward, flight attendant, cabin crew

14. A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.

present singular third person stewards · participle present stewarding · participle past stewarded · past 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.”

   2007 May 1, Richard G. Jones, “An Acting Governor’s Balancing Act: Taking the Lead Without Stepping on Toes”, in New York Times

plural Stewards · alternative Stewart

1. countableuncountableAn English surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Stewart.
2. countableuncountableA village in Lee County, Illinois, United States.