Word Finder - steward

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

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A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.

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A flight attendant, a male flight attendant.

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

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A person who has charge of buildings and/or grounds and/or animals.

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A fiscal agent of certain bodies.

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a steward in a Methodist church

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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.

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

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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.

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To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)

The cafe manager knew how to steward the staff to give good service.

The steward on the cruise ship made sure the passengers' rooms were cleaned.

A new head butler was hired to steward the maids and cooks.

The steward instructed the waiter to quickly pick up the orders from the chef.

He married his daughter, Marjory, to the Steward, and from this union came the Stewart (Stuart) dynasty.

Christopher has been a shop steward for many years.

The tenant, or steward, usually had other land of his own.

That 's exactly what Tesco stock controller Kimberley Leighton did last year when she became a shop steward.

The manorial courts are still held, and the Court Rolls are with the rector 's solicitor as steward of the manor.

Usually men cut off half their bill, as the unjust steward, when he owed a hundred, bade him set down fifty.

In May 1363 David put down a rising headed by the Steward, and then, in October, went to London, where he and the earl of Douglas made arrangements by which the countries were to be united under Edward III.

Thought to have become Arthur 's steward, definitely a hero in battle, a humorous is slightly scatty character.

And also concerning all my worldly goods, which you have made me steward of here in this world and vale of misery.

A daughter's estate was usually managed for her by her brothers, but if they did not satisfy her, she could appoint a steward.

Having handed over the duties of government to David, the Steward escaped from the battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, and was again chosen regent while the king was a captive in England.

Accused, probably without truth, of desertion at Neville's Cross, the Steward as heir-apparent was greatly chagrined by the king's proposal to make Edward III.

Everyone born of villein stock belonged to his master and was bound to undertake any service which might be imposed on him by the master's or the steward's command.

The governing body consisted of a high steward, deputy steward, two water-bailiffs and 28 burgesses, but the cdrporation was abolished by the Municipal Corporation Act of 1883, and a Local Board was formed, which, under the Local Government Act, gave place in 1894 to an urban district council.

One outstanding case, however, that of Dr Steward,' casts some suspicion on all the others.

The terms of Buckingham's note' concerning it might easily have aroused doubts; and we find that the further course of the action was to all appearances exactly accommodated to Dr Steward, who 4 A position which Bacon in some respects approved.

By this charter the burgesses acquired the right of nominating annually two of their number for the office of portreeve so that the lord's steward might select one of them to exercise the office, an arrangement which continued till 1835; the bailiff's functions were defined and curtailed, and the lord's chancery was to be continually kept open for all requiring writs, and in Gower - not wherever the lord might happen to be.

The stewards within an NHS region elect a regional steward.

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely.

Among them were the chief steward of the vessel.

He was also appointed steward to the countess Szapary, a widow with large estates, and as her representative had a seat in the county assembly.

A landowner who did not manage his own estate placed it in the hands of a steward (major), who superintended the working of the estate and collected its revenues.

If he had several estates, he appointed a chief steward, who managed the whole of the estates and was called the major domus.

Cromwell was perhaps arrested in his project by his succession in 1636 to the estate of his uncle Sir Thomas Steward, and to his office of farmer of the cathedral tithes at Ely, whither he now removed.

John Maidston, Cromwell's steward, gives the "character of his person."

In 1693 he presided in great state as lord high steward at the trial of Lord Mohun; and on the 4th of May 1694 he was created duke of Leeds.'

But just as the king appoints judges to hear placita coram rege ipso, and the feudal lord appoints his seneschal or steward, so the bishop appoints his official.

High steward at Richard's crowning, the duke bore the crown and rode as marshal into Westminster Hall.

A charter of incorporation given by Elizabeth in 1558 vested the government in a portreeve, a steward and twelve burgesses, the continuance of the corporation being subject to the port and harbour being kept in repair.

Her uncle, the duke of Norfolk, presided as lord steward, and gave sentence, weeping, that his niece was to be burned or beheaded as pleased the king.

The miners of Derbyshire formed an independent community under the jurisdiction of a steward and barmasters, who held two Barmote courts every year.

The bishop of Glasgow, James the steward, and Sir Alexander Lindesay became sureties for Bruce until he delivered his daughter Marjorie as a hostage.

The Lord High Steward of England, who must not be confused with the Lord Steward, ranks as the first of the great officers of state.

In 1397 John of Gaunt created a notable precedent in support of the steward's claim to be supreme judge in parliament by presiding at the trial of the earl of Arundel and others.

No permanent steward was ever again created; but a steward was always appointed for coronations to perform the various ceremonial services associated with the office, and, until the Court of Claims was entrusted to commissioners, to preside over that court.

Also, in the 15th century, it gradually became the custom to appoint a steward pro hac vice to preside at the trial, or at the proceedings upon the attainder of a peer in parliament; and later, to preside over a court, called the court of the, lord high steward, for the trial of peers when parliament was not sitting.

The court of the lord high steward seems to have been first definitely instituted in 1499 for the trial of Edward Plantagenet, earl of Warwick; only two years earlier Lord Audley had been condemned by the court of chivalry, a very different and unpopular tribunal.

The practice of appointing a steward on these occasions to execute judgment upon a peer was kept up till 1477, when George, duke of Clarence, was attainted, and then dropped.

Under the Stuarts the criminal jurisdiction of parliament was again resorted to, and when the proceedings against a peer were founded on indictment the appointment of a steward followed as a matter of settled practice.

In Danby's case a commission under the great seal issued in the common form adopted for the court of the steward; this was recalled, and the rule agreed to by a joint committee of both houses that a steward for trials of peers upon impeachments was unnecessary.

The steward's ancient and particular services at coronations are practically obsolete; the full ceremonies, procession from Westminster Hall and banquet in which he figured prominently, were abandoned on the accession of William IV.

He was a minister for fifty-five years, and served the Bible Christians as editor, missionary treasurer, book steward and three times president of conference.

The Lanercost contemporary chronicler writes that the bishop of Glasgow and the Steward began the broil, and called in Wallace as the leading brigand in the country-side.

The Scottish cause seemed stronger than ever, under Bruce, the Steward, the Red Comyn and Lamberton, but in June 1300 Edward mustered a splendid array, and took Carlaverock castle, but, on the arrival of the archbishop of Canterbury with a letter from the pope approving of the Scottish cause, he granted a truce till Whitsuntide 1301.

He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward.

Mitenka's wife and sisters-in-law thrust their heads and frightened faces out of the door of a room where a bright samovar was boiling and where the steward's high bedstead stood with its patchwork quilt.