

( aviation ) steward, male flight attendant One who is in charge of the household affairs of a large estate, club, hotel, or resort.Steward m ( plural stewards, feminine stewardess) ^ “American Heritage Dictionary”, in (please provide the title of the work), accessed 26 October 2011, archived from the original on 27 September 2014.( member of a flight crew ) See flight attendant What is a stipendiary steward In Britain, horse racing stewards are officials appointed by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).) : caretaker, custodian, keeper groundskeeper ( of estates ) ( person in charge of buildings, grounds, etc.( member of a flight crew ) : air steward, airline steward see also flight attendant.( medieval overseer ) : bailiff, provost.For the sake of brevity, steward is sometimes treated as a gender-neutral term itself and applied to both male and female flight attendants. The word "stewardess" is still commonly used in Singapore and Malaysia, but is now dated and considered sexist in the United States.

With regard to airlines, steward is usually distinguished from the more common and exclusively feminine stewardess in colloquial speech, while the gender-neutral flight attendant is usually preferred to both in formal contexts.

( information technology ) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong. Translations steward - any administrator of the property or affairs of another steward - the administrator of a medieval manor steward - ships officer in.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.
