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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steward
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shop steward
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
▪ This department is responsible for all cabins and public areas and is headed by the chief steward.
▪ As chief steward, Gloucester had access to significant patronage.
▪ Alongside this influence on others the chief steward could also make direct grants.
▪ Distinct from this was the chief steward's right to appoint the stewards of some lesser estates within the duchy.
▪ The right to that appointment was presumably an established perquisite of the chief steward.
▪ His deputy as chief steward, for instance, was his councillor Miles Metcalfe.
▪ But such cases were not, as the council claimed, the result of slack administration by the chief steward.
■ NOUN
shop
▪ The exchange is purely ritual in function, authorizing Bert Braddock to reassure anxious shop stewards if they start asking awkward questions.
▪ The shop steward had ordered fancy new machines and given virtually everyone in manufacturing a big raise.
▪ Not long ago, I was in a nasty argument with a shop steward.
▪ And the House of Lords reversed the Court of Appeal and decided that the union was responsible for its shop stewards.
▪ Remember, this is an election for shop steward.
▪ The young Communist shop steward had no difficulty in obtaining the first two warning notes.
■ VERB
act
▪ Her ever-loyal husband insisted it was business-as-usual as he acted as a steward as Cheltenham Races.
▪ About 12,000 attended, including about 2,000 Blackshirts, half of whom acted as stewards.
become
▪ The predator must become a repentant steward.
▪ Frederick Chiluba, 48, became a shop steward in 1967 and made a rapid rise through trade union ranks.
▪ He became a shop steward in 1971 before taking over as Transport and General Workers Union convener 10 years ago.
▪ But during the dispute she became a shop steward.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Not all ranchers are good stewards of the land.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He turned smartly on his heel and trotted into the foyer, greeting the stewards with indiscriminate effusion.
▪ Neither Leo nor the steward reckoned that anyone would object too strenuously.
▪ The Skerritts had been stewards of Carewscourt for generations.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steward

Steward \Stew"ard\, n. [OE. stiward, AS. st[=i]weard, stigweard, literally, a sty ward; stigu sty + weard warden, guardian, -- his first duty having been probably to attend to the domestic animals. [root]164. See Sty pen for swine, Ward.]

  1. A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.

    Worthy to be stewards of rent and land.
    --Chaucer.

    They came near to the steward of Joseph's house.
    --Gen. xliii. 19.

    As good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
    --1 Pet. iv. 10.

  2. A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.

  3. A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.

  4. In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.

  5. In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
    --Erskine.

    Lord high steward, formerly, the first officer of the crown; afterward, an officer occasionally appointed, as for a coronation, or upon the trial of a peer. [Eng.]

Steward

Steward \Stew"ard\, v. t. To manage as a steward. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
steward

Old English stiward, stigweard "house guardian, housekeeper," from stig "hall, pen for cattle, part of a house" (see sty (n.1)) + weard "guard" (see ward (n.)). Used after the Conquest as the equivalent of Old French seneschal (q.v.). Meaning "overseer of workmen" is attested from c.1300. The sense of "officer on a ship in charge of provisions and meals" is first recorded mid-15c.; extended to trains 1906. This was the title of a class of high officers of the state in early England and Scotland, hence meaning "one who manages affairs of an estate on behalf of his employer" (late 14c.). Meaning "person who supervises arrangements" at a meeting, dinner, etc., is from 1703.\n

\nThe Scottish form (with terminal -t attested from late 14c.) is reflected in Stewart, name of the royal house descended from Walter (the) Steward, who married (1315) Marjorie de Bruce, daughter of King Robert. Stuart is a French spelling, attested from 1429 and adopted by Mary, Queen of Scots.

Wiktionary
steward

n. 1 A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity. 2 A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions. 3 A flight attendant, ''especially but not exclusively'' a male flight attendant. ''Often as'' "air steward", "airline steward", etc. 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 and/or grounds and/or animals. 6 A fiscal agent of certain bodies. 7 In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students. 8 In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. 9 In information technology, somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong. vb. To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)

WordNet
steward
  1. n. someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else

  2. the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements

  3. an attendant on an airplane [syn: flight attendant]

  4. a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management [syn: shop steward]

  5. one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn: custodian, keeper]

Gazetteer
Steward, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 271
Housing Units (2000): 103
Land area (2000): 0.124263 sq. miles (0.321840 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.124263 sq. miles (0.321840 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72624
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.848485 N, 89.020671 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60553
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Steward

The term steward may refer to:

Steward (office)

A steward is an official who is appointed by the legal ruling monarch to represent them in a country, and may have a mandate to govern it in their name; in the latter case, it roughly corresponds with the position of viceroy (for Romance languages), governor, or deputy (the Roman rector, praefectus or vicarius). It was also a term used to refer to the chief servant of a landed estate.

Steward (surname)

Notable people surnamed Steward include the following:

  • Alan Steward, record producer, song writer and recording artist
  • Alf Steward (1896–after 1939), English football player and manager
  • Andrew Steward (born 1954), Australian water polo player
  • Anthony Steward (born 1978), American basketball player
  • Augustine Steward (1491–1571), English politician
  • Austin Steward (1793–1860), American slave, abolitionist and author
  • Brad Steward, American snowboarder and entrepreneur
  • David Steward (born 1951), American business executive
  • Dean Steward (born 1923), American football player
  • Derek Steward ( fl. 1950), New Zealand runner
  • Eddie Mae Steward (1938–2000), American civil rights activist
  • Emanuel Steward (1944-2012), American boxing trainer and commentator
  • Ernest Steward (1910–1990), British cinematographer
  • Frederick Campion Steward (1904–1993), British botanist and plant physiologist
  • Gregory Steward (born 1962), American canoer
  • Harold Macdonald Steward (1904–1977), British engineer and politician
  • Herbie Steward (1926–2003), American saxophonist
  • Jimmy Steward (born 1946), Honduran football player
  • John Steward (1874–1937), Anglican bishop of Melanesia
  • Joseph Steward (1753–1822), American artist
  • Julian Steward (1902–1972), American anthropologist
  • Katrina Elayne Steward (born 1979), American choreographer, dancer, singer and actress
  • Lewis Steward (1824–1896), American politician
  • Natalie Steward (born 1943), British swimmer
  • Nicholas Steward (before 1547–1634), English politician
  • Osbern the Steward (before 1007–c. 1040), Norman steward
  • Pat Steward (born 1962), Canadian musician
  • Peter Steward (born 1942), Australian Australian rules footballer
  • Richard Steward (c. 1593–1651), English churchman
  • Robert Steward (disambiguation) (before 1503–1557), English cleric
  • Ron Steward (born 1927), Australian media personality
  • Samuel Steward (1909–1993), American writer, professor, tattoo artist and pornographer
  • Simon Steward (c. 1572–after 1629), English politician
  • Susan McKinney Steward (1847–1918), American physician and author
  • Theophilus Gould Steward (1843–1924), American author, educator and clergyman
  • Tim Steward, Australian musician, singer and songwriter
  • Tony Steward (1941–2002), South African cricketer
  • Tony Steward (American football) (born 1992), American football player
  • William Steward (New Zealand politician) (1841–1912), New Zealand politician
  • William Steward (UK politician) (1901–1987), British politician

Usage examples of "steward".

Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and- like rye shaken together in a shovel- the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the ballroom.

He spoke in the clean, clipped Anglais that those few stewards assigned to direct intercourse with humans used.

James Camb, a steward on a luxury liner plying between South Africa and England, was accused of murdering a passenger, the actress Gay Gibson.

It was he who sat opposite the new player, Count Raoul de Coude, whom at over-attentive steward had pointed out as one of the celebrities of the passage, describing him as a man high in the official family of the French minister of war.

It was composed of a Milanese steward, named Carcinelli, of a priest who fulfilled the duties of secretary because he could not write, of an old woman acting as housekeeper, of a man cook with his ugly wife, and eight or ten servants.

Roman lady, descended from a consular family, and possessed of so ample an estate, that it required the management of seventy-three stewards.

He called in the steward of the grounds, and farmers from the far reaches of the dukedom, even a shepherdess to ask about caves in the hillsides!

Cugel sauntered forward, to find that the cabin formerly allotted to Nissifer had been taken by the ecclesiarch Gaulph Rabi, while Porraig the steward had settled into the carpenter shop.

Perhaps they would all make a home together somewhere, if the stewards won their battle, if the rumored Darkmage and his rebel horde succeeded in bringing the Ennead down They could start a village of their own, band together to put the horror of this place behind them forever, work to make a new life.

Ennead cloaks, saw pale faces never graced by sunshine floating over the dark velvet livery the Ennead had lately adopted for their private stewards.

Moreover, the Hojo based their rule on an epochal formulary, the Jdei Code of 1232, which contained detailed provisions dealing with those matters that were of most concern to the members of a warrior class, including the duties of land stewards and constables, the distribution of fiefs, and the settlement of armed disputes.

From what he could see, Fundal and Khelaya were doing most of the work, although the steward did the dirty cleaning when he thought Kharl would not be needing him, something Kharl had become first aware of when he and Demyst had inspected the empty barracks spaces.

Chavigni by sight, and that the steward had promised her two louis a month and her meals in her own room.

As well pleased as my guests, I left twenty ducats with the steward, for the servants, and promised him to let Count Verita know of my satisfaction in writing.

There is Lord Neville, Sir Stephen Cossington, and Sir Matthew Gourney, with Sir Walter Huet, Sir Thomas Banaster, and Sir Thomas Felton, who is the brother of the high steward.