stewardship
noun (stewardship, uncountable)
Everyday
- Looking after something carefully on behalf of someone else, or for the future. tree →
- (church) Christians believe God made the world and gave people stewardship of it: the duty to care for the earth, animals and gifts, not waste them. tree →
- (money, formal) Managing money or a business carefully and responsibly. tree →
In the lessons
In religion and science lessons stewardship links to caring for the environment: recycling, saving energy, protecting animals. In church life «stewardship» also means giving time, talents and money wisely. Phrases: «stewardship of the earth», «good stewardship», «under the stewardship of».
Examples
- Christians believe humans have stewardship of God's creation. tree →
- Planting trees is good stewardship of the land. tree →
- The club grew under the stewardship of its new coach. tree →
- Our eco-club teaches stewardship of the school garden. tree →
- Stewardship means looking after what is not only ours. tree →
- The church talked about stewardship of time and money. tree →
Note
Uncountable. Comes from steward (a person who looks after a house, ship or estate for someone). Formal word. Similar: care, guardianship.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «stewardship» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «stewardship» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stewardship/