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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oversight
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
lax
▪ Loan were sued by the federal government for lax oversight, which the government said caused taxpayers to lose $ 941 million.
■ NOUN
committee
▪ Killian said he will form an oversight committee to watch the effect of the legislation and change it if problems arise.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a school oversight committee
▪ Due to an administrative oversight, several members of staff did not receive pay checks this month.
▪ I'm sure it was just an oversight that your name wasn't on the list.
▪ The bank apologized for the oversight.
▪ They sent a check along with a letter of apology for the oversight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Oversights can be extremely costly and a microcomputer model carefully constructed will not allow oversights to occur.
▪ It also would require collaboration and oversight by both schools and businesses.
▪ It is not surprising then, if over several months, this oversight should reveal itself in these small but telling ways.
▪ Loan were sued by the federal government for lax oversight, which the government said caused taxpayers to lose $ 941 million.
▪ May I apologize for this unconventional oversight as well as for other more serious ones-and some not so serious?
▪ These are not accidental oversights on the part of the academic community.
▪ When a parent hands over the child, he or she loses parental oversight and responsibility.
▪ Whether that resulted from political cowardice, lack of persuasiveness or mere oversight does not matter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oversight

Oversight \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oversight

"supervision," early 14c., from over- + sight. Meaning "omission of notice, fact of passing over without seeing" attested from late 15c.; compare oversee.

Wiktionary
oversight

n. 1 An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten. 2 supervision or management.

WordNet
oversight
  1. n. an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something [syn: inadvertence]

  2. management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group [syn: supervision, supervising, superintendence]

  3. a mistake resulting from inattention [syn: lapse]

Wikipedia
Oversight

Oversight may refer to:

  • Oversight (horse), a French Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Regulation – rulemaking
  • Separation of powers (checks and balances) - the concept of separate branches of government or agencies exercising authority over one another
  • Congressional oversight exercised by the United States Congress
  • The ministry of episcopal oversight within Christian churches
Oversight (horse)

Oversight (foaled 1906 in Calvados Lower Normandy) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by American sportsman William Kissam Vanderbilt at his Haras du Quesnay stud farm, he was out of the mare, First Sight, a daughter of the 1893 English Triple Crown champion, Isinglass. His sire was Halma, winner of the 1895 Kentucky Derby whom Vanderbilt bought in 1901 in the United States from Charles Fleischmann Sons.

Racing from age two through four, Oversight won important French races such as Prix du President de la Republique and the Prix Jean Prat before being retired to stud where he was not successful as a sire.

Usage examples of "oversight".

In three paragraphs Taft identified more factual errors, misattributions, and oversights than two dozen other scholars had found in their own book reviews.

As with poultry, to create an illusion of federal oversight, inspectors were authorized to reinspect six sides of beef-the equivalent of three cows-out of as many as 3,200 cattle per shift.

The group went into the dining room, and Dave informed Sarge of his oversight.

Piles, or Mixtures of Clean Scoured Wools -- Dyed Wool Book -- The Order Book -- Pattern Duplicate Books -- Management and Oversight -- Constant Inspection of Hill Departments -- Importance of Delivering Goods to Time, Shade, Strength, etc.

DNI scrolled down file after file as the SF9 flew on toward Arnoon, information thrown up by his AS as it hunted for oversights and mistakes.

Congress asked outside commissions to do the work that arguably was at the heart of its own oversight responsibilities.

To be less abstract - Let us suppose a game of draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings, and where, of course, no oversight is to be expected.

This conditional permission is granted providing qualified UIPS technicians and administrators under the oversight of Plutonian citizens staff these facilities.

Sister John relax and turn her attention to her cellmates, remedying her previous oversight by announcing that she was Sister John of St.

Like the other Governors, I will have failed my field test, but the Oversight Committee can arrange for older models of robots to run the city.

I also know that the Oversight Committee has all the other Governors in its possession.

Holy Office, lest one or another of the ten inquisitors feel slighted by his oversight.

An oversight committee of citizens will be appointed by the Metro Commission, to make sure that the monies are spent only on voter-approved projects, and that beachfront cabanas don't get priority over inner-city gyms.

This took place around one o'clock, and only then did Sister John relax and turn her attention to her cellmates, remedying her previous oversight by announcing that she was Sister John of St.

I have also had a complaint on your behalf from the oversight agencies, SPRIM and MM, citing personal interference from the Inspector General.