stewardship

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Stewardship is the careful looking after of something in your charge. Environmental stewardship, financial stewardship, good stewardship of the land.

The idea inside it is that the thing is not yours, so it is care held on behalf of somebody else. It is common in charity reports and in writing about land.

Definitions of stewardship

1nounstewardshipThe careful looking after of something in your charge.C1
“The trust was praised for its stewardship of the woodland.”

stewardship is a caring for.

Where it comes from

Middle English stiwardshepe is steward plus -ship; a steward was originally a sty-ward, the keeper of the hall's livestock.

Middle English
stiwardshepe
English, today
stewardship

From Middle English stiwardshepe, equivalent to steward + ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

stewardship in the wild

The concept of stewardship can be applied to the environment and nature, economics, health, places, property, information, theology, and cultural resources.
Stewardship
Product stewardship is an approach to managing the environmental impacts of different products and materials and at different stages in their production, use and disposal.
Product stewardship
Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing, viability, certification, and the maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing.
Stockpile stewardship
In Abrahamic religions, stewardship is commonly used in reference to maintaining and growing the resources of a religious institution.
Stewardship (theology)
The idea of stewardship in theology has grown in response to climate change.
Stewardship (theology)

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