Definition of "steward"

steward

/ˈstjuː.əd/

noun
plural stewards, feminine stewardess
1. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity
  1. (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
2. (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
  Quotations
  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.
  1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company
3. A flight attendant, especially male.
4. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
5. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, and/or animals.
6. Someone responsible for organizing an event
7. Bartender
8. A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
9. A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
10. (higher education) An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
11. (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
  Quotations
  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.
  2001, The Innes Review
12. (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.
13. (motor racing) Person responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and whether or not fines/penalties should be issued for such incidents.
verb
third-person singular simple present stewards, present participle stewarding, simple past and past participle stewarded
1. To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
  Quotations
  Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, a Democrat from Middlesex County, said, “It’s an uncomfortable situation,” but added that Mr. Codey is nevertheless “ably stewarding the state.”
  2007 May 1, Richard G. Jones, “An Acting Governor’s Balancing Act: Taking the Lead Without Stepping on Toes”, in New York Times‎