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: one employed in a large household or estate to manage domestic concerns (such as the supervision of servants, collection of rents, and keeping of accounts)
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: a fiscal agent
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: an employee on a ship, airplane, bus, or train who manages the provisioning of food and attends passengers
b
: one appointed to supervise the provision and distribution of food and drink in an institution
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: one who actively directs affairs : manager
stewarded; stewarding; stewards
: to act as a steward for : manage
: to perform the duties of a steward
Examples of steward in a Sentence
Noun
the steward of their investments
teaching our children to be good stewards of the land
the steward of the estate
The race stewards are reviewing the results.
Verb
will steward the city's library programs
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Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
Hearts’ captain Lawrence Shankland was a target but all the Hearts players were still on the pitch as stewards struggled to clear them.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 16 May 2026
Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
Commissioners must steward public trust and ensure every resident’s voice is respected.
—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
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Noun
The Palau Pledge, stamped into every visitor's passport on arrival, is a legally binding promise to act as a steward of the environment.
—Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
Hearts’ captain Lawrence Shankland was a target but all the Hearts players were still on the pitch as stewards struggled to clear them.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 16 May 2026
Verb
The Met will need to gather $200 million for an endowment to steward the Neue Galerie, which Lauder and his daughter, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, will reportedly give some funds toward, as well as 13 works from their collection.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
Commissioners must steward public trust and ensure every resident’s voice is respected.
—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
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“Steward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steward. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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