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Answer for the clue "Like some oversight ", 3 letters:
lax

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Word definitions for lax in dictionaries

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Lax \Lax\ (l[a^]ks), a. [Compar. Laxer (l[a^]ks"[~e]r); superl. Laxest .] [L. laxus Cf. Laches , Languish , Lease , v. t., Leash .] Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. ...

Usage examples of lax.

When Lax and the defense attorneys saw a transcript of the interview, they were appalled by the tenor of the exchange.

Despite pretending to be a strict judge of propriety, his own behavior is appallingly lax.

And his horse pacing was tolerable under the lax supervision of Arga, the farrier.

How shall the perplexed navigator steer his course when monitors in office accuse him on the one hand of lax precision throughout, and belaud him on the other for careful observance of detail?

Elizabeth and Blanche walked to the garden with him but hardly tried to mask their conviction that he was only finding an excuse when he asked if they had been disturbed by any uncanny presence, while the air spirit was offended by the idea it had been lax in its attention.

Blanche Creamer, a lax, tumble-to-pieces, Greuze-ish looking blonde, whom the Widow hated because the men took to her, was purgatoried between the two old Doctors, and could see all the looks that passed between Dick Venner and his cousin.

LAX, Lobsang Drom and Kula the Mongol looked to Remo Williams with expectation writ large on their faces.

One arm with lax embrace the neck enwreathed, With polished roundness near the sleek, gray skin.

Ducos, on the Isle of Pines, which in those days had been sacred to political prisoners, and discipline there had been, even then, lax compared to that of the Ile Nou, the very heart of prison-land, where Maxime Dalahaide was dragging out the weary years of his lost life.

The Clerics described a paganistic, morally lax Federation anxious to export their decadence throughout the galaxy.

Father had already eaten once early in the afternoon, and besides that was what Ringo and I were waiting for: for after supper, the hour of laxed muscles and full entrails, the talking.

We were running from an assault on the El Segundo complex and were trapped between that and the assault on LAX.

Its head was twisted at an odd angle, and its arms were lax at its sides, unraised against what had crushed its throat.

Once enfolded in the foggy embrace, Ambry drooped limply, his face lax and expressionless.

When Shettles and Lax visited, they saw a severely troubled teenager who they feared might be suicidal.