Word Meanings - SUPERVISORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.

Related words: (words related to SUPERVISORY)

• SUPERVISORY
  Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SUPERVISION
  The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach