(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.
Stewardess
Definition:
(n.) A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then, as one of the stewardesses, as they were called then, was bringing the captain his lunch, the woman shoved her aside and rushed into the cockpit, rapidly followed by the man.
(2) The Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford also welcomed the decision, saying: "The court has struck exactly the right balance in judging that BA's corporate image policy should not override right of BA stewardess Nadia Eweida to wear a cross whereas genuine health and safety issues in a hospital could rule out nurse Shirley Chaplin's desire to wear one.
(3) Cethan Leahy said the novel now looked like a "tale which is possibly about the fun hi-jinks of four air stewardesses", while children's writer Louie Stowell wrote: "I think, after that Bell Jar cover, my next pitch for a kids book will be The Big Pink Book of Low Expectations For Girls.
(4) It has been followed by shows like Pan Am , which celebrates and glamorises the life of air stewardesses in the 1960s, when flying was a far cry from the crowded hell that it is nowadays.
(5) I asked the chief stewardess why the maid didn’t quit.
(6) But in a second round of tests, the scientists interleaved words that had no special meaning for the control group, but were associated with the airline incident, such as "Atlantic", "runway", "stewardess" and "Transat".
(7) These values were then correlated with the records of 62 pilots and stewardesses with subnormal hemoglobin values to assure the opertional predictive validity.
(8) I heard of one stewardess who married their owner, but those kinds of relationships are rare.” Drugs are less ubiquitous than you might think.
(9) "I've been paying the salaries of 500 Germans from drivers to pilots and stewardesses for 37 days.
(10) Travel alone offers no real danger to the pregnant stewardess in the first trimester of pregnancy; however, because of the changing mechanics of her size, posture, and increasing unsteadiness, it would be wisest to require a pregnant stewardess to cease flying at 13 weeks, with an absolute prohibition of flying after the 20th week.
(11) Remember her ex-air stewardess mother and the "doors to manual" jibes.
(12) A procedure was developed whereby the high capacity Boeing 747 could be disinsected by four stewardesses in less than 1 minute.
(13) The author outlines the normal changes to be expected with advancing pregnancy and those factors that could have an adverse effect on a pregnant stewardess and her fetus, such as hypoxia, trauma, abortion, the hazards of travel, and flying itself.
(14) Brussels attacks: bomber 'caught in Turkey last June' says Turkish president – live Read more The woman has since been identified as Indian air stewardess Nidhi Chaphekar, a mother of two from Mumbai who arrived at the terminal ahead of meeting her colleagues for a flight to Newark in the United States.
(15) Particularly at risk may be stewardesses if they continue their strenuous work while pregnant.
(16) Engelhard seems to have taken this as a compliment and began calling one of the stewardesses on his private jet Pussy Galore, after the character played in the film by Honor Blackman.
(17) He just shrugged OK, so I stood by him and smiled for the camera while a stewardess did the snap.
(18) There is much pressure on the airlines to allow stewardesses to fly while pregnant.
(19) Murphy Govind, the brother of MH17 stewardess Angeline Premila Rajandran , said: "It is sad that the bodies will not be home before [Eid, the end of the fasting period] but there's nothing we can do.
(20) But we soon realised the Israelis had chosen the real, real ugly solution to attack in international water … It was only when I got on my flight home that I realised that people had died in the attack, when the stewardess told me on the plane," he said.