steward

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈstu.ɚd/|[ˈstʊu̯.ɚd] ~ [ˈstʊu̯.ɹ̩d]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
  2. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.; A chief administrator of a medieval manor. historical
  3. A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
    — 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.
  4. A flight attendant, especially male. dated
    — The gay Kibbutzniks I met were all ex-Kibbutzniks who were curretly holding jobs as El-Al stewards or in some similarly classic gay professions.
  5. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
  6. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
  7. Someone responsible for organizing an event
  8. A bartender.
  9. A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
    — a steward in a Methodist church
  10. A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
  11. An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
  12. A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. Scotland
    — 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.
  13. Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
  14. A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents.
  15. A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.
动词 v.
  1. To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
    — 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.”

词形变化

stewards plural stewards present,singular,third-person stewarding participle,present stewarded participle,past stewarded past

词汇关系

下位词
flight attendant
衍生词
airline steward air steward bar steward bread-steward shop steward slip steward Steward stewardish stewardism stewardless stewardlike stewardly stewardry stewardship stewardsman Stewart stewartry under-steward wine steward

词源

词源 1
From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.
词源 2
From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.
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