stewardship

«stewardship» in Mova's school dictionary: Looking after something carefully on behalf of someone… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (stewardship, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Looking after something carefully on behalf of someone else, or for the future. tree →

2) (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 →

3) (money, formal) Managing money or a business carefully and responsibly. tree →

sense 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.

In the corpora

• God gives people the job of caring for the animals and the land (Genesis 1 and 2); this is called stewardship.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stewardship» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.