shop steward

1. 1.

   a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management

   Synonymssteward

   Broaderunion representative

Questions about shop steward

What does shop steward mean?

shop steward means "a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management".

What is another word for shop steward?

Close synonyms include steward. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shop steward a common word?

shop steward is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.