What is "supervisory"

Usage examples of "supervisory".

Chief who is a roving supervisory watch stander in the engineering spaces.

The fat little guy was always in your face, always dancing up to you bigger than life, in academic seminars or private supervisory sessions always rising up onto his tippy-toes like a bingeing ballerina to present some goofy Freudian stuff in the voice and gesture of a Borscht Belt comic, self-mocking in the extreme.

We're going to roll overl' Mark Littleberry said to the man driving, Supervisory Special Agent William Hopkins, Jr, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

At another command, 26 SIEs with their two supervisory SIECOM units would emerge from the electrode-tips and bloom within the right and left lateral ventricles.

We made wholesale replacements in the supervisory personnel of the key departments, eliminating the nomenklatura and promoting the most competent underlings, so that normal operation hardly missed a step.

The older hands who had worked their way up the hard way let the youngsters do the computer-driving, since they themselves had only a passing familiarization with the equipment, and took on the role of supervising, marking trends, setting corporate policy, and generally being the kindly uncle to the youngsters, who regarded the supervisory personnel as old farts to whom you ran in time of trouble.

He then closed the controlroom doors and used the main screen of the supervisory console to compose and transmit the message that Pacey dictated.

How many experimental runs had it taken before Ben and the supervisory program in the lab's big server had really communicated?

Back in cloud-time, preparing himself, he'd edited out any need or desire for food, drink, sleep, sex, companionship, or even a change of scenery, and he'd preprogrammed his exoself-the sophisticated, but nonconscious, supervisory software which could reach into the model of his brain and body and fine-tune any part of it as required-to ensure that these conditions remained true.

Back in cloud-time, preparing himself, he'd edited out any need or desire for food, drink, sleep, sex, companionship, or even a change of scenery, and he'd preprogrammed his exoselfthe sophisticated, but nonconscious, supervisory software which could reach into the model of his brain and body and fine-tune any part of it as requiredto ensure that these conditions remained true.

She had used her supervisory position at the Colorado Vital Records Bureau to fabricate an identity and a birth certificate for Natil, but, nervous and frightened at the technical felony she had been committing, she had gone completely blank when the computer had queried her for a last name.