steward

1. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.Synonyms: bailiff, provosthistorical

2. (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.Examples: "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."

3. (higher education) An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.

4. (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.Examples: "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."Scotland

5. (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.

6. (motor racing) 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.Synonyms: air steward, airline steward, flight attendant, cabin crew