Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An unintentional omission or mistake.
- n. Watchful care or management; supervision.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Superintendence; inspection; watchful care.
- n. A mistake of inadvertence; an overlooking; omission; error.
- n. Synonyms Supervision, inspection, control, direction, management, charge.
- n. Inadvertence, etc. (see negligence), mistake, blunder, slip.
Wiktionary
- n. An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
- n. supervision or management
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
- n. An overlooking; an omission; an error.
- n. rare Escape from an overlooked peril.
WordNet 3.0
- n. management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
- n. a mistake resulting from inattention
- n. an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
Etymologies
- over- + sight. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In Britain oversight is performed both by members of Parliament and by judges.”
The Washington Post: Britain's MI6 operates a bit differently than CIA
“Persisting in this oversight is a prescription for a degree of misery, social and political instability, and conflict in the twenty-first century that no amount of effort at arms control and crisis management will be able to contain.”
“But this kind of oversight is not required for new, unorthodox surgical procedures.”
“And he's confident that the changes being made in oversight of banks and Wall Street should prevent another crisis such as the one that hit financial markets a year ago.”
“They have to be controlled and a strong oversight is need for both of them. shmeckel”
“Let's be honest, though; the GOP geniuses are going to be sifting through the expenditures looking for $500 toilet seats or whatever, so I suppose extreme oversight is a good idea (I mean, we all know how important government oversight is to Republicans, cough, cough).”
“I think the Republicans have been far more successful in promoting the general idea that less oversight is (usually) better, and that the free market will result in better solutions.”
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“The lack of court oversight is the problem, as the prosecutor is essentially free to create conditions or “education programs” (which in a criminal justice context has a frightening ring to it) that meet his personal ends.”
“Whether civic oversight is important, and the kind and extend of such oversight, must be determined by the natures of the societies.”
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“The housing bubble and lack of oversight is on the DEMS.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oversight’.
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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ECON - economic policy instruments
Towards a European banking union and common economic policy. Terms still warm and crispy from the corridors of legislation (summer 2012).
umbrella fund, Basel I & II, financial transac..., Keynesian reflati..., Lamfalussy procedure, Lamfalussy process, Solvency I & II, Tobin tax, carousel sanctions, prudential oversight, redemption fund, bail-in and 489 more...
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-ight
light, night, wight, hight, knight, fight, bright, right, fright, bight, eight, might and 174 more...
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US - Congress vocabulary
population shift, symbolic represen..., logrolling, pocket veto, personal judgment, pork barrel, televise, elected official, reapportionment, redistribute, cloture, standing committee and 70 more...
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over-
above; upper; superior; eminent
overbearing, overrate, overshoot, overwhelm, overexert, overachiever, overact, overadjust, overambitious, overanalyze, overarching, overbooked and 42 more...
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Incorrectum
Mistakes, Errors and Accidents.
nihilartikel, solecism, bevue, corrigendum, acyrology, cacoepy, fido, hamartithia, jeofail, mésalliance, mumpsimus, pseudochronism and 63 more...
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[Open] Contranyms
ingenuous, bill, bound, cleave, clip, dust, fast, handicap, oversight, rent, screen
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2050 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 123
delivery, oversight, yet, so-called, NASA, riddle, vessel, infant, pouch, boundary, aircraft, vary and 11 more...
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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