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[ oh-ver-sahyt ] / ˈoʊ vərˌsaɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR oversight ON THESAURUS.COM
nounan omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights. unintentional failure to notice or consider; lack of proper attention: Owing to my oversight, the letter was sent unsigned. supervision; watchful care: a person responsible for the oversight of the organization. Origin of oversightMiddle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at over-, sight SYNONYMS FOR oversight1, 2 mistake, blunder, slip. 2 lapse, neglect, inattention. 3 management, direction, control; surveillance. SEE SYNONYMS FOR oversight ON THESAURUS.COM WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH oversightoverlook, oversee, oversight Words nearby oversightovershoe, overshoot, overshot, overshot wheel, overside, oversight, oversimplify, oversize, overskirt, overslaugh, oversleep Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for oversightThey have argued in court that they are not public and therefore they are not subject to the oversight that public entities are. Hunger Games Comes to New York State’s Public Schools|Zephyr Teachout|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Third, the destruction: These hedge-fund managers want to eliminate all limits and oversight of charter schools. Hunger Games Comes to New York State’s Public Schools|Zephyr Teachout|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST The omission of contributor information on future reports should not be assumed to be an oversight. Mystery Man Buys Kentucky for the GOP|Center for Public Integrity|October 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST The lack of oversight is perhaps the worst aspect of this type of work. Finally, Home Care Workers Start Fighting Back|Monica Potts|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Roark was a staffer on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and focused on NSA oversight. Speed Read: James Risen Indicts The War On Terror’s Costly Follies|William O’Connor|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST An oversight likewise made the passage appear much more tedious, nay, almost insupportable. Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark|Mary Wollstonecraft Hortense felt rather ashamed when she confessed this; she also inwardly regretted such an oversight. A Virgin Heart|Remy de Gourmont As this might have been due to an oversight on the part of his valet it was not included in the charge. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920|Various Frowenfeld replied that it had been left by the oversight of a customer, and expressed a liking for its odor. The Grandissimes|George Washington Cable In a town in that State one paper, through an oversight, had been skipped altogether in the distribution of the advertising. Sawdust & Spangles|W. C. Coup
British Dictionary definitions for oversight
nounan omission or mistake, esp one made through failure to notice something supervision Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to oversightlapse, neglect, mistake, control, management, surveillance, handling, maintenance, inspection, overlook, miscue, default, fault, inattention, error, laxity, blunder, blank, chasm, dereliction |