(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.
Warden
Definition:
(n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
(n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
(n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
(n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The warden threatened to have her killed by other inmates.
(2) The cuts affect a wide spectrum of projects: youth offending teams will shrink, probation staff numbers will dwindle, refugee advice centres will halve in size, Sure Start services will disappear, domestic violence centres will have to restrict the number of people they can help, HIV-prevention schemes will end, lollipop wardens will no longer be funded, help for women with postnatal depression will vanish, a work scheme for people who are registered blind will be wound down, day centres for street drinkers will close their doors, theatres will get less money, debt advice services will have fewer people available to help, fire stations will shut.
(3) Renal blood flow was partially autoregulated after oil blockade of tubules, as indicated by a mean autoregulation index (Semple-de Wardener (1959) of 0-5.
(4) Without the team these people would not have become known to the responsible authorities until families, neighbours, and wardens became unable to cope.
(5) Police say child B was discovered by a street warden near Kisanga's east London flat on November 24, 2003.
(6) Asked about the plan, Baker said on Monday that "both sides of the coalition" wanted high streets to prosper and that he agreed that over-zealous action by traffic wardens could be a problem.
(7) The five-day event brings America’s prison industry, wardens, county officials and lobbyists under one roof .
(8) Warden Anita Trammell said she thought Lockett spoke.
(9) If I'm a successful warden and I do my job and we correct the deviant behaviour, then we should have a parole hearing.
(10) There is no Warden Norton pocketing brown envelopes in this instance.
(11) After daily injections of melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH), MSH-release inhibiting factor (MIF), or diluent albino rats ran a 12 choice Warden maze for a palatable food reward.
(12) In Cover Her Face , the victim is an unmarried mother, charitably employed by the mistress of the manor (the house is still in family hands) as a parlourmaid, on the commendation of the warden of a refuge for "delinquent" girls.
(13) I saw traffic wardens, shop assistants, and waiters subjected to rudeness and worse, by people who were clearly loaded.
(14) A pilot project in New York City, which designed and implemented a first-response capability for medical emergencies in corporations, using employees in a system congruent with the fire warden plans in effect, was completed in May 1977.
(15) It can feel proud of itself, and its former warden.
(16) A small, fluorescent traffic warden took him by the hand and led him gently away.
(17) Prison wardens have now reportedly eased some of their regulations, prompting Alyokhina to end her fast.
(18) During harvest season, many of the boys and girls in the camp will go to work at the nearby farms for as little as $2 (£1.30) a day, said Abu Mohammed, the camp warden.
(19) A nurse working in sheltered housing where wardens have been removed told the Guardian: "I have residents who sit in their nightclothes all day because they cannot afford the alternative.
(20) One of the wardens resulted anti-HTLV III positive whilst 14 appeared to have been infected by HBV.