supervisor
/ˈsuːpəvʌɪzə
/noun
1A person who supervises a person or an activity.Here's what's surprising to me: 27 percent had come to the attention of supervisors for suspicious activities prior to the crime they were caught committing....
- Higher-level managers often spot-quiz supervisors about their new employees: What are his hobbies?
- This result corresponds with the presumed deficit in supervisory training of agricultural supervisors and managers and the results of this study.
Synonyms
manager, director, administrator, overseer, controller, boss, chief, superintendent, inspector, head, governor, superior, organizer, conductor, steward, foreman, ganger
informal honcho, gaffer
1.1A person who directs and oversees the work of a postgraduate research student.Work done by university staff acting as supervisors for postgraduate students can be viewed in the same way....
- Teacher educators, supervisors, and professors who teach, mentor, and advise preservice teachers should consider the resistant nature of teacher efficacy beliefs.
- To such supervisors, research students may represent a source of cheap research labour.
- in the affirmative
- in (the) aggregate
- in the air
- in the altogether
- in the ascendant
- in the bag
- in the balance
- in the belief that
- in the blink of an eye (or in a blink)
- in the box seat
- in the buff
- in the business of
- in the cactus
- in the can
- in the cart
- in the catbird seat
- in the cause of
- in the clear
- in the clouds
- in the club (or the pudding club)
- in the clutch
- in the cold light of day
- in the concrete
- in (the) course of ——
- in the dark