overseer

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The next question I put to the overseer was about him.

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  1. noun One who keeps watch over and directs the work of others, especially laborers.
  2. noun A supervisor or superintendent.

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  • My master knew his overseer was a coward, and that if he could work upon his fears by supposing me to be too high-spirited to stand a whipping, he would probably save me from Hines' malice, and keep the overseer to his work. —  Biography of a Slave
  • But he was much from home; and that kept him ignorant, to a great degree, of what was going on there; and for the rest, the overseer was anxious to save his feelings, and had issued very strict orders, which he enforced with merciless severity, that nobody should run to the House with tales of what was done upon the plantation. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • This delay she could account for by the plea of not being able to find the overseer, and by a pretended uncertainty as to whether it would be colonel Moore's wish, that the overseer should be informed at all about the matter. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • But the cries and shrieks of his wife made him deaf to our entreaties; he rushed forward; and before the overseer was aware, he seized his whip, snatched it from his hand; and demanded what he meant by beating a woman in that way, for no offence whatever? —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • Director Terence Young, best known as the overseer of several James Bond movies, would give the movie a heart-stopping pace that caused audiences around the country to scream aloud at its most frightening moments. —  Audrey Hepburn
 

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/oʊvərˈsir/
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