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oversight

[ oh-ver-sahyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an omission or error due to carelessness:
My bank statement is full of oversights.
Synonyms: slip, blunder, mistake
unintentional failure to notice or consider; lack of proper attention:
Owing to my oversight, the letter was sent unsigned.
Synonyms: inattention, neglect, lapse, slip, blunder, mistake
supervision; watchful care:
a person responsible for the oversight of the organization.
Synonyms: surveillance, control, direction, management

oversight

/ ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt /

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English; over- + sight

This is why arguments for little to no federal oversight of education are so disturbing.

There was virtually no government oversight of safety and operational standards.

Congress created SIGAR to provide oversight of relief and reconstruction projects in Afghanistan.

They have argued in court that they are not public and therefore they are not subject to the oversight that public entities are.

Third, the destruction: These hedge-fund managers want to eliminate all limits and oversight of charter schools.

Shifting Sands (Lane) reads like a book with a purpose from which the purpose has been by some oversight omitted.

A correspondent points out that if that amount has ever been left in the bottom of his teacup it was an oversight.

The ill success of half the foreign purchasers must be imputed to this oversight.

But a larger number of lambs will be reared by a careful oversight of the ewes, and the use of proper precautions.

By a very unusual chance or oversight, there had been no men-of-war despatched to protect property of such enormous value.

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