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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#m2)

3) (money, formal) Managing money or a business carefully and responsibly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#x1)
- Planting trees is good stewardship of the land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#x2)
- The club grew under the stewardship of its new coach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#x3)
- Our eco-club teaches stewardship of the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#x4)
- Stewardship means looking after what is not only ours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#x5)
- The church talked about stewardship of time and money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stewardship» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stewardship/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.