Definition of steward

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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..

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Major-domo :: Major-domo (n.) A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer..
Stewardly :: Stewardess (n.) A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers..
Court-leet :: Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet..
Manciple :: Manciple (n.) A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court..
Comprador :: Comprador (n.) A kind of steward or agent.
Stewardess :: Steward (v. t.) To manage as a steward.
Steward :: 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..
Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Granger :: Granger (n.) A farm steward.
Graff :: Graff (n.) A steward; an overseer.
Stewish :: Stewartry (n.) In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction..
Court-baron :: Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse..
Greencloth :: Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates..
Reve :: Reve (n.) An officer, steward, or governor..
Steward :: Steward (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church..
Seneschal :: Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands..
Dispender :: Dispender (n.) One who dispends or expends; a steward.
Stewartry :: Stewartry (n.) The office of a steward; stewardship.
#NAME? :: -ship (n.) A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship..
Provisor :: Provisor (n.) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house..
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