steward
Meaning
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- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity
- A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A flight attendant, especially male.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, and/or animals.
- Someone responsible for organizing an event
- Bartender
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
- An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
- Person responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and whether or not fines/penalties should be issued for such incidents.
Synonyms
room clerk
cabin attendant
house-keeper
Lord High Steward
manager of a household
guardman
man servant
court official
Frequency
Hyphenated as
stew‧ard
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈstjuː.əd/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stīweard, 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.
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