steward

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A fiscal agent of certain bodies.

   A steward in a Methodist church.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

Common collocations

• shop steward Noun + noun

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.

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