Word Meanings - SUPERVISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.

Related words: (words related to SUPERVISION)

• OVERSEERSHIP
  The office of an overseer.
• OVERSEE
  1. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook. 2. To omit or neglect seeing. Spenser.
• OVERSEER
  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.
• OVERSIGHT
  1. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision. 2. An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker. 3. Escape from an overlooked peril. "His fool-happy oversight." Spenser. Syn. -- Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking;
• INSPECTION
  1. The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation. Spenser. With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature. Milton. 2. The act
• SUPERINTENDENCE
  The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision. Barrow. Syn. -- Inspection; oversight; care; direction; control; guidance.
• REINSPECTION
  The act of reinspecting.