noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shop steward
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
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This department is responsible for all cabins and public areas and is headed by the chief steward .
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As chief steward , Gloucester had access to significant patronage.
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Alongside this influence on others the chief steward could also make direct grants.
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Distinct from this was the chief steward's right to appoint the stewards of some lesser estates within the duchy.
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The right to that appointment was presumably an established perquisite of the chief steward .
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His deputy as chief steward , for instance, was his councillor Miles Metcalfe.
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But such cases were not, as the council claimed, the result of slack administration by the chief steward .
■ NOUN
shop
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The exchange is purely ritual in function, authorizing Bert Braddock to reassure anxious shop stewards if they start asking awkward questions.
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The shop steward had ordered fancy new machines and given virtually everyone in manufacturing a big raise.
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Not long ago, I was in a nasty argument with a shop steward .
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And the House of Lords reversed the Court of Appeal and decided that the union was responsible for its shop stewards .
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Remember, this is an election for shop steward .
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The young Communist shop steward had no difficulty in obtaining the first two warning notes.
■ VERB
act
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Her ever-loyal husband insisted it was business-as-usual as he acted as a steward as Cheltenham Races.
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About 12,000 attended, including about 2,000 Blackshirts, half of whom acted as stewards .
become
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The predator must become a repentant steward .
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Frederick Chiluba, 48, became a shop steward in 1967 and made a rapid rise through trade union ranks.
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He became a shop steward in 1971 before taking over as Transport and General Workers Union convener 10 years ago.
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But during the dispute she became a shop steward .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Not all ranchers are good stewards of the land.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He turned smartly on his heel and trotted into the foyer, greeting the stewards with indiscriminate effusion.
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Neither Leo nor the steward reckoned that anyone would object too strenuously.
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The Skerritts had been stewards of Carewscourt for generations.