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overseer
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was the overseer on the roads? ▪ If in his new post as security overseer he can reduce crime, well and good. ▪ Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish. ▪ That is, he was more often issuing ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who oversees or supervises. A supervisor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overseer \O`ver*seer"\, n. One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., agent noun from oversee (v.).
Usage examples of overseer.
Some neber look after de slabes, and leabe all to overseers, and dese bery often bad, cruel men.
I sold some of der Prussian blue to der Hungarian overseer of der factory, who gave me monish to say notting about it.
Towards Fanny, the poor, overstrung hunchback, Clara was unfailingly compassionate and gentle, as a result of which Fanny shed more bitter tears than ever the rough tongues of the other overseers had caused her.
Old Marster, de overseer, and de patterollers kept de slaves straight.
Annixter had telegraphed to his overseer to have the building repainted, replastered, and reshingled and to empty the rooms of everything but the telephone and safe.
Fuzwik squirmed uncomfortably in his seat as he sat in the presence of Overseer Tejharet, Seeress Jenoset, and his fellow seeress consort, Padrin.
We know that the overseer and the seeress came back here alone for one unit of time after dinner and then the seeress and the regent went down to Aluwna.
Conan, Juma, and the others slept and woke to receive wooden bowls of rice, stingily shared out by their overseers.
The Overseer lay in the below-decks cabin, nursing a pipe of Tinsen opium.
Beacon Hill, admired hy their neighbors for their philanthropy and their patronage of art and culture, these men traded in State Street while overseers ran their factories, managers directed their railroads, agents sold their water power and real estate.
His overseer was about as unbelieving as the negroes, and declared he could beat the guano by expending the same value in manure upon a given quantity of surface.
Garman was in rags and his condition evidenced the keenest poverty, this sally was treated as a fine joke by the overseer and the understrappers, who roared with laughter, and swore that they had never heard anything better in their lives.
After three long years of backbreaking work the plantation was finally self-sufficient, and with a competent overseer it would remain so until he returned from Virginia.
Tartars and Calmucks usually as rank and file, the Russians and other Europeans as overseers, foremen, and skilled labourers.
There were local Unitarian and Congregationalist ministers, fellows from the Harvard Corporation, and a few representatives of the Harvard Board of Overseers.