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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
4
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
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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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Megan Poinski, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are both pitching themselves as the best steward of the future health of the U.S. economy.
—Rebecca Picciotto,annie Nova, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2024
Nicholas Krohley, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2016
One of the best ways to steward a gift is by reporting the outcome or the results of the gift, the lives impacted, and the difference made in the most personal way possible.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Gallina: Being an IRO teaches you how to be a steward of value.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are both pitching themselves as the best steward of the future health of the U.S. economy.
—Rebecca Picciotto,annie Nova, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2024
Verb
The Saudi government will have to steward this process with a combination of open dialogue, broad incentives, and selective coercion.
—Nicholas Krohley, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2016
One of the best ways to steward a gift is by reporting the outcome or the results of the gift, the lives impacted, and the difference made in the most personal way possible.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Steward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steward. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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