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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An unintentional omission or mistake.
  2. n. Watchful care or management; supervision.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Superintendence; inspection; watchful care.
  2. n. A mistake of inadvertence; an overlooking; omission; error.
  3. n. Synonyms Supervision, inspection, control, direction, management, charge.
  4. n. Inadvertence, etc. (see negligence), mistake, blunder, slip.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
  2. n. supervision or management

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
  2. n. An overlooking; an omission; an error.
  3. n. rare Escape from an overlooked peril.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
  2. n. a mistake resulting from inattention
  3. n. an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something

Etymologies

  1. over- +‎ sight. (Wiktionary)

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  • qroqqa Perilously close to an autantonym: the two opposing meanings are equally old, going back to the 1400s. Mar 26, 2009

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