Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who supervises.
- noun One who is in charge of a particular department or unit, as in a governmental agency or school system.
- noun One who is an elected administrative officer in certain US counties and townships.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent: as, the supervisor of a coal-mine; a supervisor of the customs or of the excise.
- noun A spectator; a looker-on.
- noun One who reads over, as for correction.
- noun In some of the United States, an elected officer of a township or town having principal charge of its administrative business.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent.
- noun obsolete A spectator; a looker-on.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun management A person with the official task of
overseeing the work of a person or group.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a program that controls the execution of other programs
- noun one who supervises or has charge and direction of
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many of us have struggled to understand that our supervisor is actually quite the pessimist, and his wary attitude has more to do with his outlook than our skills as researchers.
No Guts, No Glory Candid Engineer 2008
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Many of us have struggled to understand that our supervisor is actually quite the pessimist, and his wary attitude has more to do with his outlook than our skills as researchers.
Archive 2008-08-01 Candid Engineer 2008
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If your supervisor is a seasoned librarian, particularly the kind who loves doing reference, this request will impress.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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If your supervisor is a seasoned librarian, particularly the kind who loves doing reference, this request will impress.
"Everything I know about doing reference I learned on the job." 2005
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"You go to what they call a supervisor then they transfer you to another supervisor and they say they'll have to look into it and they'll call you back in 48 hours," Onorato said.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Then he screams his supervisor is picking on him to everyone who will listen.
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“Sir, please step away while I call my supervisor.”
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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I'm now stuck with an ipod that wasn't fixed by Geek Squad, and Tony the Geek Squad supervisor is telling me that my only option is to pay for someone else other then Geek Squad to have it fixed.
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If the IT policy makes him responsible for reporting misuse of computers as a supervisor, is that legally binding to the point he is bound to at least investigate the anomaly of a flash drive left in the computer?
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“Sir, please step away while I call my supervisor.”
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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