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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supervision
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close supervision (=constantly making sure that someone does things in the correct way)
▪ Initially there will be close supervision of the trainee.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adequate
▪ In the meantime, it is essential that the collection is sited in a room where adequate supervision can be exercised.
▪ The report also emphasized the need for adequate training and supervision of personnel working in this area.
▪ The manufacturer brought evidence that he had a safe system of operating and adequate supervision to ensure that the system was followed.
▪ Also, there would be the further question of why the parents had not provided adequate supervision.
▪ The option of letting children stay indoors during breaks could be considered though providing adequate supervision sometimes provides problems.
▪ The firm must provide evidence of appropriate compliance procedures and its ability to exercise adequate supervision.
▪ It is unfair, however, to expect nurses to take on this new role and responsibility without adequate training and supervision.
adult
▪ From a very early age, lower-working-class boys engage in rough, exclusively masculine forms of play, free of adult supervision.
▪ Parties of children are only admitted during public opening hours with adult supervision.
careful
▪ Woodwork is an activity which requires careful supervision.
▪ These cases are sometimes treated with sleeping pills under the careful supervision of a physician.
▪ Purists conceived of masculinity as a never-ending battle, requiring constant watchfulness and careful supervision.
▪ It is a skilled exercise which needs careful instruction and supervision before attempting it on the approach with full airbrake.
close
▪ Until the late 1980s, Soviet historians remained under close party supervision.
▪ Beginning analysts usually work under close supervision.
▪ If it has to be backed up by close supervision and control a point may be reached where such activities are self-defeating.
▪ Similarly, it might be reasonable to require teachers to provide close supervision for students working with dangerous equipment in school.
▪ The main area for discussion has been the extent to which there should be close day-to-day supervision of television and radio.
▪ Mechanization has increased the autonomy of the agricultural worker and has rendered close supervision difficult, if not impossible.
▪ This, in turn, suggested Gouldner, creates a requirement for close supervision.
▪ The need for close supervision is therefore apparent, although this in itself presents problems.
constant
▪ In practice this might require constant supervision of the patients over the course of several weeks.
▪ Were the chil-dren old enough to play on the beach alone or did they need constant supervision?
▪ These indices have an international reputation and require constant supervision and maintenance to ensure that they satisfactorily reflect market developments.
▪ Consequently, unless carried out carefully and under constant supervision, maintenance tended to cost more than it should.
▪ Their principal drawback lay in their informality, which demanded the constant supervision of an active King.
▪ Male sexuality was defined as an instinctual force which, while needing constant medical supervision, was an essential attribute of masculinity.
▪ On the other hand, the plus side of that may be that you are good at working alone without constant supervision.
direct
▪ Clayton &038; Dubilier or Forstmann Little, which exert direct supervision over managers.
▪ Instead, we will see a gradual decline of direct supervision as teams mature.
▪ Relative invisibility and freedom from direct supervision liberate field staff from some of the constraints found in other occupations.
▪ At the museum, the students were allowed to view the exhibits without direct supervision.
▪ It could not be done by direct supervision because of the inability of management to be present at the face frequently enough.
▪ As the postholder progresses through the career grade, direct supervision will be restricted to the more complex and demanding issues.
effective
▪ Beneath the Treasurer, the Chancellor of the Exchequer came to exercise an effective supervision both of receipt and of audit.
▪ The effective supervision and guidance of the party was officially seen as the key to the ever-improving welfare of the Soviet people.
▪ He exercised no effective supervision of the great departments of State.
▪ The employer must provide a competent staff, adequate material, a proper system and effective supervision.
general
▪ To him also was entrusted the general supervision of the economic interests of the Crown in the Forest.
▪ The person principally concerned with the general supervision of standards is, of course, the traffic commissioner.
▪ Central Government's control by general supervision.
medical
▪ Male sexuality was defined as an instinctual force which, while needing constant medical supervision, was an essential attribute of masculinity.
▪ Authorities feared she would attempt to deliver her baby without medical supervision.
▪ It is a method only to be used in a real emergency under medical supervision.
▪ In anorexia the first essential is for life-saving medical supervision.
▪ Never use a sunbed on a regular basis, unless you are under medical supervision for a skin complaint.
▪ Many of the house officers were working long hours without proper medical supervision.
personal
▪ Hygiene and safety take priority on the sunbeds while personal supervision is regarded as of the utmost importance on the toning tables.
▪ Over time, as the movement expanded and bureaucratized, he was forced to relax his personal supervision.
proper
▪ The hospital management insists that everything was done under proper nursing supervision.
▪ He stressed consistency and proper and regular supervision.
▪ Many of the house officers were working long hours without proper medical supervision.
▪ Local training schemes also often do contract gardening under proper supervision which can be a bargain.
regular
▪ He stressed consistency and proper and regular supervision.
responsible
▪ You may also be responsible for the supervision of staff and develop management skills.
▪ We therefore allocated the listed companies to the regulators responsible for the supervision of the auditors.
strict
▪ To many this sounds attractive, implying freedom from fixed hours, strict supervision and the hassles of commuting.
▪ Jackson and Medina will be under strict pretrial supervision and must surrender any travel documents.
▪ More probation hostels were urgently needed for young persons, and hostels should be provided for adult offenders who required strict supervision.
▪ Their contents would have been eaten under strict supervision!
▪ But under the strictest supervision, of course.
■ NOUN
order
▪ Last summer he was placed under a supervision order after being found guilty of burglary, armed robbery and car theft.
▪ They were finally released a week later and sent home under a supervision order.
▪ The most that that young man received was a supervision order for one year.
▪ One of the two teenagers was put on probation for a year, the other received a supervision order.
▪ Relevant proceedings are pending if they are in progress at the date the application for a care or supervision order is filed.
▪ The Panel considered lifting the supervision order, but didn't.
▪ It can also make a s8 order in addition to a supervision order but not a care order.
▪ Cameron was given a year's probation and Ralphs a year's supervision order.
requirement
▪ References to a supervision requirement in the Act include references to a requirement made in substitution for an existing requirement.
▪ Until that time your child must remain at the place named on the supervision requirement.
▪ Yet, for this child, the rehabilitation period will be the length of time he is subject to a supervision requirement.
■ VERB
carry
▪ These should be carried out under the supervision of a senior member of staff.
exercise
▪ Beneath the Treasurer, the Chancellor of the Exchequer came to exercise an effective supervision both of receipt and of audit.
▪ He exercised no effective supervision of the great departments of State.
▪ The firm must provide evidence of appropriate compliance procedures and its ability to exercise adequate supervision.
▪ Bismarck had refused to contemplate the possibility of Prussian judges exercising a supervision over political decisions.
involve
▪ Other possibilities are the use of a broader range of amicus curiae briefs in cases involving issues of supervision.
▪ The conditions are designed to distinguish cases involving issues of supervision from those involving issues of review.
▪ The study, by the Family Matters Institute, involved questionnaires completed under supervision in 21 schools.
need
▪ Experiments with water Older preschoolers will enjoy these simple experiments, which will need your supervision and explanation.
▪ Often these patients are difficult to manage, have complicated diagnoses and need round-the-clock supervision.
▪ They cater for people who need both nursing supervision and a lot of practical help.
▪ Were the chil-dren old enough to play on the beach alone or did they need constant supervision?
▪ He could have been in a hotel, had he not needed care and supervision which he blatantly did not get.
▪ Male sexuality was defined as an instinctual force which, while needing constant medical supervision, was an essential attribute of masculinity.
▪ It is a skilled exercise which needs careful instruction and supervision before attempting it on the approach with full airbrake.
place
▪ Last summer he was placed under a supervision order after being found guilty of burglary, armed robbery and car theft.
provide
▪ The committee said the letters should suggest banning disruptive pupils, issuing boarding passes and asking the school to consider providing supervision.
▪ Similarly, it might be reasonable to require teachers to provide close supervision for students working with dangerous equipment in school.
▪ A third measure will allow small slaughterhouses to use larger slaughterhouses to provide their veterinary supervision.
▪ The family provides 24-hour supervision and help with daily living.
▪ Also, there would be the further question of why the parents had not provided adequate supervision.
▪ However, neither that agreement nor its amendments ever state the organization has to provide management supervision for a construction project.
▪ The option of letting children stay indoors during breaks could be considered though providing adequate supervision sometimes provides problems.
▪ Most of the costs of a volunteer tutoring program would go to provide training and supervision to the tutors.
receive
▪ In addition, they receive individual supervision in the preparation of their intended research projects.
require
▪ In practice this might require constant supervision of the patients over the course of several weeks.
▪ This has been shown to be an effective and rapid method of training but it does require intensive supervision from an adult.
▪ Woodwork is an activity which requires careful supervision.
▪ Monitoring such standards requires supervision which is both costly and frequently highly imperfect.
▪ Many of these require frequent supervision and add to the work load of the warden.
▪ More probation hostels were urgently needed for young persons, and hostels should be provided for adult offenders who required strict supervision.
▪ These indices have an international reputation and require constant supervision and maintenance to ensure that they satisfactorily reflect market developments.
▪ Washing and dressing and also feeding were classified as requiring no supervision, supervision only, or help on at least one occasion.
work
▪ We saw a group of workers on the right bank working under military supervision.
▪ Beginning analysts usually work under close supervision.
▪ Most of them are school-based and can be used by small groups of teachers working under the supervision of a trained tutor.
▪ They work under the supervision of a Meister, a master craftsman who also is a skilled teacher.
▪ The committee for the 1991 Somerville Ball is already working hard under the supervision of Auriol Miller.
▪ For the most part, these contract workers work under the supervision of permanent staff, performing more labour-intensive tasks.
▪ The agency has corporate personality and it works under the supervision of parliament.
▪ She was something of a perfectionist in her work and realised that she liked to work with minimum supervision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It has been claimed that the role of parental supervision continued into the early mills.
▪ Links with other departments allow interdisciplinary support and supervision where nursing interests extend across disciplines.
▪ Such comprehensive supervision and reporting can actually reduce client costs, and relieve clients of the problems inherent in cleaning any premises.
▪ The argument that, with compulsory supervision, mentally ill people in the community may be offered better service is dubious.
▪ The local authority also undertakes supervision of children and this replaces the previous probation order.
▪ The need for occasional supervision at least when working with the dying can not be overstated.
▪ Therefore, detailed supervision was observed to be quite rare.
▪ They still had staff supervision, but not enough.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supervision

Supervision \Su`per*vi"sion\, n. The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
supervision

1630s, from Medieval Latin supervisionem (nominative supervisio), noun of action from past participle stem of supervidere "oversee, inspect" (see supervise).

Wiktionary
supervision

n. 1 The act or instance of supervise. 2 Responsible oversight. 3 (cx UK Cambridge University English) A tutorial session for an individual student or a small group.

WordNet
supervision

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

Wikipedia
Supervision

Supervision is an act or instance of directing, managing, or oversight.

Supervision (comics)

Bridget Flynn is a fictional comic book superheroine, a member of the superhero team Dynamo 5, which appears in the monthly series of the same name from Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, the character first appeared in Dynamo 5 #1 (January 2007).

For the first 24 issues of the series, the character possessed superhuman strength and invulnerability, and went by the codename Scrap. In issue #25 of the series (October 2009), the character, whose powers had been erased in the previous issue, obtained different powers. Now possessing laser, telescopic and x-ray vision, she goes by the codename Supervision.

Supervision (disambiguation)

Supervision is the act or instance of directing, managing, or oversight.

Supervision may refer to:

  • Abusive supervision
  • Clinical supervision, the system whereby therapists are expected to arrange to meet another therapist for their own benefit or to discuss their work
  • In Great Britain, especially at Cambridge University, "supervision" can mean a tutorial, that is, a meeting between a student or small group of students and a teacher
  • Watara Supervision (also known as Quickshot Supervision in the UK) is a video game system
  • Supervision (comics), (formerly known as Scrap), a female superhero and member of Dynamo 5
  • "Supervision" in telecommunication refers to the on-hook/off-hook condition of a phone line, making it part of line signalling
  • In childcare and general use, the verb "to supervise" means to watch over, and is often used in the context of an adult watching children to ensure they are attended, acceptably behaved, and safe
  • SuperVision (Band), the works of Richard Blake Hansen released under the Pretty Lights record label.

Usage examples of "supervision".

But, bright as it was, the baronet relaxed nothing of his vigilant supervision.

Government of a Bill placing animal experimentation in Greta Britain under legal supervision and control.

Expressed in its simplest terms, it is a demand that the practice of animal experimentation shall be investigated by the State to determine what is actually being done, and that thereafter legislation shall be had that shall place it under such supervision and restriction as shall insure differentiation between scientific investigation performed for wise and adequate ends and purposes on the one hand, and on the other acts of a painful and brutal character performed from unworthy motives, with no adequate benefit possible as a resultant, and which clearly come within the classification of cruelty.

The Commissioners are referring only to experimentation in England, where unauthorized painful experimentation is contrary to law--certainly not to America, where no Government supervision of any kind is to be found.

There should be no effort made to prevent those experiments which involve no suffering for animals, and all animal experimentation should be brought under the direct supervision and control of the State.

He classified the seemingly hypnotic process as being only his personal supervision, meaning that he had not revealed to me the complete manipulatory technique at that particular time.

By the way, Marthe, I wish you would give your personal supervision to the preparation of my hot water in the future.

Henceforth Ireland was to be governed jointly by Cuan of the line of Lochlan, chief poet of Meath, and Corcran Cleireach, a renowned holy man and anchorite under the supervision of the Abbot of Lismore.

Another alternative is to accept the proposal of the Paladin Corporation to take over supervision of the contract granted to the Merryman Corporation.

He believed in the murrain, and he feared that without his supervision the outbreak would spread.

I can figure, he essentially wants us to take over supervision of every aspect of life aboard Outbound Flight.

The manufacture of this compound is under the special supervision of a competent chemist and pharmaceutist, and it is now put up in bottles wrapped with full directions for its use.

A photograph copy of this planisphere, of the size of the original, and the finest existing, having been made by Signor Naya, of Venice, under the express supervision of my friend, Mr.

These, with the approval and supervision of the Combine authorities, made themselves available to the Prole males for a small monetary return.

As you have probably noticed I am having some involuntary twitches in the fingers of my left hand, but under your supervision I have no doubt that this small problem will clear up sooner or later and then I can go back to my old southpaw ways.