steward 
stew·ard (sto̵̅o̅′ərd, styo̵̅o̅′-)
noun
- a person put in charge of the affairs of a large household or estate, whose duties include supervision of the kitchen and the servants, management of household accounts, etc.
- one who acts as a supervisor or administrator, as of finances and property, for another or others
- a person variously responsible for the food and drink, the service personnel, etc. in a club, restaurant, etc.
- a person, usually one of a group, in charge of arrangements for a ball, race, meeting, etc.
- an attendant, as on a ship, train, etc., employed to look after the passengers' comfort
- flight attendant
- an officer on a ship who is in charge of stores and culinary arrangements
- shop steward
- a person morally responsible for the careful use of money, time, talents, or other resources, esp. with respect to the principles or needs of a community or group our responsibility as stewards of the earth's resources
Etymology: ME stiward < OE stiweard < stig, enclosure, hall, sty + weard, keeper, ward
intransitive verb
to act as a steward
transitive verb
to be the steward of (something); manage
steward
n.
A manager
agent, chamberlain, purser; see administrator.An attendant
waiter, waitress, porter, flight attendant, stewardess, host, hostess, maitre d'*.
Converse of object
- elect: The stewards within an NHS region elect a regional steward.
- appoint: The appointed stewards for the meeting ensure compliance from all present.
Adjective modifier
- unjust: And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely.
- faithful: Help us to be faithful stewards of our planet.
- chief: Among them were the chief steward of the vessel.
- wise: Help us to be wise stewards of what you've given us.
- senior: Emergency vehicles attending the site should be met by the person in charge of safety or a senior steward.
- revolutionary: They also gave notice c further efforts to set up a network c revolutionary shop stewards in the factories.
Modifies a noun
- committee: She is a lovely girl, who is so keen to learn and an asset to the shop stewards committee.
Noun used with modifier
- twice-a-day: Alumni there are prices ever starting by the funnel including twice-a-day steward.
- shop: Mr Cairns is a full time shop steward within Coventry City on behalf of the TGWU.
- cabin: Your cabin steward will be able to answer any questions you may have.
- lord: However, there were certain functions which the lord steward was obliged to undertake whenever parliament was in being.
- union: I was berating people as tho I was a trade union shop steward!
- volunteer: In 1998 also, I was a volunteer steward on the festival camp site.
Possessives
- inquiry: It came as no surprise when a stewards ' inquiry was announced.
Possessives
- ship: Lunches and dinners are served to the table by our ship's stewards, and breakfast is served here also but is buffet style.
Preposition: of
- manor: The manorial courts are still held, and the Court Rolls are with the rector's solicitor as steward of the manor.
- mystery: This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
- grace: As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him 'till they burst.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
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