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a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management

someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else

a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management

someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else

A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.

A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.

A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.

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.

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

To manage as a steward.

Stewardess.

Stewardess.

A person managing the estate or affairs of another.

A man having charge of provisions, etc., on board ship.

Stewardship.

One who manages the domestic concerns of a family or institution: one who superintends another's affairs, esp. an estate or farm: the manager of the provision department, etc., at sea.

n. [Old English, Anglo-Saxon] A man employed to manage domestic concerns, servants, accounts, &c. ;-a waiter on board a ship ;-a fiscal agent of certain bodies; a high officer of state ; - in Scripture, a minister of Christ.