oversight
1oversight — UK US /ˈəʊvəsaɪt/ noun ► [U] LAW, GOVERNMENT, MANAGEMENT systems or actions to control an activity and make sure that it is done correctly and legally: »In commodity trading, key goods such as oil or uranium are traded with almost no oversight.… …
2oversight — oversight, supervision, surveillance all denote the function or duty of watching or guarding for the sake of proper control or direction. Oversight applies to the function or duty not only of one who is called an overseer or an inspector but of… …
3oversight — Care needs to be taken to distinguish the two primary meanings, (1) ‘supervision’: • There must be a representative of Scotland in the United Kingdom Cabinet with a general oversight over the economy and the framing of Scotland s budget Lord Home …
4Oversight — O ver*sight , n. 1. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision. [1913 Webster] 2. An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker. [1913 Webster] 3. Escape from an overlooked peril. [R.] His fool happy oversight. Spenser. [1913 Webster]… …
5oversight — [n1] failure, omission blank*, blunder, carelessness, chasm, default, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, inattention, lapse, laxity, miscue, mistake, neglect, overlook, overlooking, preterition, pretermission, skip, slip, slipup*; …
6oversight — I (carelessness) noun blunder, careless mistake, careless omission, erratum, error, failure, failure to notice, heedlessness, inadvertency, inattention, incuria, lapse, laxity, laxness, mistake, neglect, negligence, nonobservance, remissness,… …
7oversight — (n.) supervision, c.1400, from OVER (Cf. over) + SIGHT (Cf. sight). Meaning omission of notice, fact of passing over without seeing attested from late 15c.; Cf. OVERSEE (Cf. oversee) …
8oversight — ► NOUN ▪ an unintentional failure to notice or do something …
9oversight — [ō′vər sīt΄] n. 1. a superintendence; supervision, esp. when careful or vigilant 2. an unintentional, careless mistake or omission …
10oversight — n. 1) an oversight that + clause (it was through an oversight that you were not invited) 2) by, through an oversight (her name was omitted through an oversight) * * * [ əʊvəsaɪt] through an oversight (her name was omitted through an oversight) by …
