| 单词 | oversight |
| 释义 | oversight (once / 1423 pages) 1n 2n An oversight is a mistake you make when you're not paying full attention. Your failure to add the sugar to the cookies was an unfortunate oversight — you were so engrossed in texting that you forgot it. Oversights are not intentional mistakes. Usually they're just the result of inattention. If you make an oversight in your inspection of a nuclear power plant and it later goes into meltdown, you'll get fired. An inspector is supposed to pay attention. But if you forgot your cousin's birthday because you're busy taking care of Grandma, that's a forgivable oversight. Oversight is also the act of supervising something, like the construction of a dam, or a high school prom. WORD FAMILYoversight: oversights+/foresight: foresightful, foresights/foresighted: foresightedly, foresightedness/foresightful: foresightfulness, unforesightful/sight: foresight, oversight, sighted, sighting, sightless, sights/sighted: foresighted, sightedly, sightedness, unsighted/sighting: sightings/sightless: sightlessly, sightlessness USAGE EXAMPLES“We need to understand what is collected and be transparent. We need some kind of oversight in place before the line gets pushed too far.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Democrats demanded more oversight of handover of the $4.2 billion to a trio of private insurers. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The U.S. economic and political model, mixing markets and government oversight, would be emulated. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something Syn|Hyper inadvertence omission neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something 2n a mistake resulting from inattention 2Syn|Hyper lapse error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention n management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group Syn|Hypo|Hyper superintendence, supervising, supervision invigilation keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating direction, management the act of managing something |
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