steward:
(plural: ‘stewards‘; female: ‘stewardess’; for the British pronunciation of this word, please click here & for the American pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a flight steward attending passengers
a person/employee who attends to the needs of passengers on an aeroplane, ship or train;
a person/employee who manages somebody else’s property, house, finance, etc., as a job;
a person/employee who manages the food, staff or service at a hotel or club;
Water Project stewards (volunteers) working on a water saving programme
an officer who is in charge of the mess on a ship;
a person/professional who helps to supervise an event or some proceedings;
(also called ‘shop steward’) an elected member of a union who helps his/her co-workers in dealing with the management;
any responsible person who, along with others with the same interest, takes up a social problem and carries on some constructive work to solve that problem,
train stewards (in yellow shirts) Japan
Casey has been a steward at the horse show and the regular visitors to the show know her and appreciate the way she helps supervise the show.
Most Europeans living in the States appoint professional stewards who are experts in managing private land, the buildings on it and the income and other financial issues concerning the property.
The relationship between the workers and the management of a workplace mostly depends on the stewards, the shop stewards, who are the bridge between their colleagues and the management… if the stewards are inefficient or corrupt, the workers suffer and if the stewards are very rigid, the management suffers.
