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Oversight

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.

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

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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