stewardship
n.
office or position of a steward
Stewardship
Stewardship is personal responsibility for taking care of another person's property or financial affairs. Historically, stewardship was the responsibility given household servants to bring food and drinks to a big castle dining hall. The term was then expanded to indicate a household employee's responsibility for managing household or domestic affairs. Stewardship later became the responsibility for taking care of passengers' domestic needs on a ship, train and airplane, or managing the service provided to diners in a restaurant. The term continues to be used in these specific ways, but it is also used in a more general way to refer to a responsibility to take care of something one does not own.
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stewardship
Noun
1. the position of steward
(hypernym) position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation
Stewardship
(n.)
The office of a steward.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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stewardship
Synonyms and related words:
administration, auspices, captainship, care, chairmanship, charge, convenership, cure, custodianship, custody, dictatorship, directorate, directorship, eagle eye, foremanship, generalship, governance, government, governorship, guard, guardedness, guardianship, guidance, handling, hands, headship, intendancy, invigilation, jurisdiction, keeping, leadership, lookout, management, managership, mastership, means of dealing, ministry, monitoring, observance, overseership, oversight, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peeled eye, presidency, proctoring, proctorship, protectorship, prudence, qui vive, safe hands, sharp eye, sovereignty, superintendence, superintendency, supervisorship, surveillance, treatment, tutelage, usage, vigil, vigilance, ward, wardenship, wardship, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye, wing
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