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Manage vs Steward - What's the difference?

manage | steward |

As verbs the difference between manage and steward

is that manage is to direct or be in charge of while steward is to act as the steward or caretaker of (something.

As nouns the difference between manage and steward

is that manage is the act of managing or controlling something while steward is a person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.

As a proper noun Steward is

{{surname|A=An English|from=occupations}}, a variant of Stewart.

manage

English

Verb

(manag)
  • To direct or be in charge of.
  • To handle or control (a situation, job).
  • To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
    • It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:
    • The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
  • To succeed at an attempt
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
    • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
  • To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
  • (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
    • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * manageable * managed care * managed code * managed house * management * manager * managerial * unmanageable

    Related terms

    * manege * manual * manus

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of managing or controlling something.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
    • the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
  • (horseriding) .

    • See also

    * man * (projectlink)

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * English control verbs

    steward

    English

    (wikipedia steward)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
  • A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • A flight attendant, especially but not exclusively'' a male flight attendant. ''Often as "air steward", "airline steward", etc.
  • A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
  • A person who has charge of buildings and/or grounds and/or animals.
  • A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
  • :
  • In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
  • In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
  • :(Erskine)
  • In 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (union member) (l) * (l), (l)

    Derived terms

    * shop steward * stewardly * stewardry * understeward

    Hyponyms

    * stewardess

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 1, author=Richard G. Jones, title=An Acting Governor’s Balancing Act: Taking the Lead Without Stepping on Toes, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, a Democrat from Middlesex County, said, “It’s an uncomfortable situation,” but added that Mr. Codey is nevertheless “ably stewarding the state.”}}

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