stewardship
noun
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When stewardship first appeared in English during the Middle Ages, it functioned as a job description, denoting the office of a steward, or manager of a large household. Over the centuries, its range of reference spread to the oversight of law courts, employee unions, college dining halls, Masonic lodges, and many other organizations. In recent years, the long-established "management" sense of stewardship has evolved a positive meaning, “careful and responsible management.” This sense is commonly found nowadays in contexts such as “stewardship of the environment, the family business,” etc. It also occasionally appears as an adjective in phrases such as “stewardship fundraising" (that is, fundraising aimed at building good relationships with donors in order to keep them loyal).
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Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
The big question for Glenn is what the Jets offense will look like under his stewardship.
—Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Rebecca Thiess, one of the Pew researchers, said the available data presents a general impression of responsible stewardship of COVID-19 funds by Illinois and the other four states.
—David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
Listen to this article If Jimmy Butler indeed is in the midst of his endgame with the Miami Heat, the process hardly is an outlier during Pat Riley’s three decades of stewardship of the franchise.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Stewardship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stewardship. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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