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Webster 1913 Edition


Oversight

O′ver-sightˊ

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Noun.
1.
Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
2.
An overlooking; an omission; an error.
Hooker.
3.
Escape from an overlooked peril.
[R.]
“His fool-happy oversight.”
Spenser.
Syn. – Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking; inadvertence; neglect; mistake; error; omission.

Webster 1828 Edition


Oversight

O'VERSIGHT

, n.
1.
Superintendence; watchful care. 1Peter 5.
2.
Mistake; an overlooking; omission; error.

Definition 2024


oversight

oversight

English

Noun

oversight (countable and uncountable, plural oversights)

  1. An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
    A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later.
  2. Supervision or management.
    • 2013 August 10, Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
      It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
    The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight.

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