About The Word Oversight

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Oversight

Oversight Meaning & Definition
Oversight Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Oversight?

[n] a mistake resulting from inattention
[n] management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
[n] an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something

Synonyms | Synonyms for Oversight: inadvertence | lapse | superintendence | supervising | supervision

Related Terms | Find terms related to Oversight: accountability | administration | aegis | auspices | balk | bevue | blank | blunder | bossing | care | carelessness | charge | chasm | check | civil government | conduct | control | culpa | culpable negligence | cure | custodianship | custody | default | delinquency | dereliction | direction | discipline | disconformity | dispensation | disposition | disregard | empery | empire | error | eye | failure | false move | false step | fault | form of government | governance | government | guard | guardianship | guidance | handling | hands | heedlessness | inadvertence | inadvertency | inattention | inobservance | intendance | jurisdiction | keeping | laches | laissez-faire | lapse | lapsus calami | lapsus linguae | laxity | laxness | loose thread | looseness | maintenance | management | ministry | miscue | misstep | mistake | neglect | neglectfulness | negligence | nonadherence | noncompliance | nonconformance | nonconformity | nonfeasance | nonfulfillment | noninterference | nonobservance | nonperformance | nonrestriction | omission | overlook | overlooking | pastorage | pastorate | pastorship | patronage | permissiveness | political organization | polity | poor stewardship | preterition | procrastination | protection | protectorship | regime | regimen | regnancy | regulation | reign | remissness | responsibility | rule | running | safe hands | skip | slackness | slight | slip | slipup | sovereignty | stewardship | stumble | superintendence | superintendency | supervision | surveillance | sway | system of government | trip | tutelage | unobservance | unrigorousness | ward | wardenship | wardship | watch and ward | wing | wrong step

See Also | direction | error | fault | invigilation | management | mistake | omission

Oversight In Webster's Dictionary

\O"ver*sight`\, n. 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.

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