steward vs undertaker

steward

noun
  • A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity 

  • A fiscal agent of certain bodies. 

  • A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management. 

  • Bartender 

  • A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. 

  • Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong. 

  • Someone responsible for organizing an event 

  • A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge. 

  • An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students. 

  • Person responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and whether or not fines/penalties should be issued for such incidents. 

  • A chief administrator of a medieval manor. 

  • A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions. 

  • A flight attendant, especially male. 

  • A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, and/or animals. 

verb
  • To act as the steward or caretaker of (something) 

undertaker

noun
  • One who undertakes or commits to doing something. 

  • A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614. 

  • A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language. 

  • A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations. 

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