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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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a
: 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
5
: 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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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
In the context of a school board, this means making decisions that prioritize student learning, creating safe and welcoming environments, and being good stewards of taxpayer dollars.
—Pioneer Press Elections Team, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Roadless wilderness represents a moral principle: that some things are good in themselves and more important than short-term economic gains, and that among them is our country’s responsibility to steward its lands for generations to come.
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The project comes after Herard became the steward of L’s estate in 2020 and attained a proper accounting of what’s owned by, and owed to, the late rapper.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
In the context of a school board, this means making decisions that prioritize student learning, creating safe and welcoming environments, and being good stewards of taxpayer dollars.
—Pioneer Press Elections Team, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
As demographic changes redefine the workforce, leaders must reorient themselves to interrogate their own mindsets, assumptions and lived experiences in order to lead and steward a workforce that looks, thinks and believes differently than the one they may have been trained to manage.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Roadless wilderness represents a moral principle: that some things are good in themselves and more important than short-term economic gains, and that among them is our country’s responsibility to steward its lands for generations to come.
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Steward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steward. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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