What's the difference between caretaker and steward?

Caretaker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1943 Konrad Lorenz postulated that certain infantile cues served as releasers for caretaking behaviour in human adults.
  • (2) The parents of caretakers of 85 randomly selected patients were interviewed in the emergency room waiting area.
  • (3) The potential for abuse in the child's caretaker, a child who is somewhat different, and a stressful situation are ingredients which often interact to produce maltreatment.
  • (4) The former midfielder has worked with the club’s academy since 2009 and has now served as caretaker manager on four separate occasions.
  • (5) Under one scenario, a caretaker prime minister would take over until the next national election.
  • (6) Torres departed with Dalglish, Liverpool's caretaker manager, insisting the club were on the rise and could withstand any major loss, just as they did when he replaced Kevin Keegan as a player in 1977 and when he reinvested Ian Rush's transfer fee from Juventus in 1987.
  • (7) In each household, interviews were completed with one adolescent and his or her female caretaker.
  • (8) A witness said he saw Ray Fisher, 75, who was a retired former engineer and caretaker who loved wildlife and bred koi carp, shot twice by Rezgui from a range of about three yards as he sat on a sunlounger.
  • (9) Mandela then returned to Liliesleaf farm, the secret base of the ANC's military wing in Rivonia, Johannesburg, where he wore blue overalls to pose as a caretaker under the alias David Motsamayi.
  • (10) Complications were not reported by any owner or caretaker.
  • (11) When this "skin function" of the caretaking object fails, real skin lesions may follow.
  • (12) He cited the example of the Howard government’s terrorism ads in the 2004 during a caretaker period.
  • (13) Ten games later he becomes Preston’s caretaker manager when Lee Chapman is sacked – but misses out on the full-time job to John Beck.
  • (14) Evidence included photographs and video taken from inside a flat with a hidden camera that had been installed with the help of a caretaker.
  • (15) A system was designed to monitor the air flow through isolation units and to alert animal caretakers in the event of any interruption in air flow.
  • (16) Failure of the caretaker to seek help for the consequences of a band may suggest that the bands were intentionally placed.
  • (17) But despite Chelsea’s defensive lapses this season, neither Mourinho nor his successor Guus Hiddink, the caretaker boss, has fielded Djilobodji in a Premier League game.
  • (18) The compound hood did not perform quite as well when not in use (set aside during infant caretaking) with the nebulizer remaining on.
  • (19) Respondents who had received inadequate help with caretaking responsibilities experienced more intense symptoms of grief subsequent to the death compared with those who reported receiving adequate caretaking support.
  • (20) The club’s former academy head had been widely tipped to replace previous incumbent Darko Milanic, who was in charge for just 32 days, and this permanent appointment follows three separate stints as caretaker manager at Elland Road for the former Barnsley player.

Steward


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To manage as a steward.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recovery was assessed by means of a modified Steward coma scale.
  • (2) A 30-year-old steward told the Guardian that the conditions under the bridge were "cold and wet and we were told to get our head down [to sleep]".
  • (3) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (4) And it can be a good idea to apply to do a one-off to see if there’s an appetite to do more and whether you have enough people willing to be stewards.
  • (5) Dressed in saris, the hijras gave an air-steward style demonstration of how to wear the belt while directing saucy, suggestive remarks at the drivers watching them.
  • (6) "These actions are not coming from the stewards, they are coming from the lads."
  • (7) On Monday, police took over security at stadiums in Durban and Cape Town amid protests by stewards.
  • (8) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
  • (9) We have created no framework in which owners are required to commit to companies over time, to steward their assets and to act as trustees for the living, breathing social organisations that companies are.
  • (10) I was raised in a traditional way and regard it as my job to be a steward of the land.
  • (11) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
  • (12) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
  • (13) Two Navy stewards waited on us, only entering the room to serve food and drinks,” Comey writes.
  • (14) Ruth Dear Ruth… Will Hutton Photograph: Guardian There is a danger of utopian myth in this, rather like the Labour left and shop steward movement in the 1960s.
  • (15) "From redundancy payments through to the failed DMI project, the BBC has not always been the steward of public money that it should have been," said Tony Hall, the corporation's director general.
  • (16) What we found, particularly here in Parramatta, is that we have large numbers of clients coming who just want general information,” says Steward.
  • (17) Two hours later, as we trooped off into blinding Caribbean sun, the steward was still beaming.
  • (18) Then 26% of people said they trusted David Cameron and George Osborne most on the economy, compared with 24% who preferred Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as stewards of the nation's finances.
  • (19) Ronaldo side-stepped him and the invader was quickly brought to ground by a rugby tackle from one of the chasing stewards.
  • (20) "It is important that you follow all instructions given by stewards," said a spokesman.