oversight
an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
unintentional failure to notice or consider; lack of proper attention: Owing to my oversight, the letter was sent unsigned.
supervision; watchful care: a person responsible for the oversight of the organization.
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How to use oversight in a sentence
In our delight over sight-seeing together, we forgot for a time the shadow hanging over us.
I Walked in Arden | Jack CrawfordIn short, we took, as was natural, all the advantage of their indiscretion and over-sight.
It was a strange over-sight in me not to learn the name of her other guardian.
Secresy | E. (Eliza) FenwickHaste could not excuse such an over-sight, as little as you knew of Miss Valmont.
Secresy | E. (Eliza) FenwickIn all the past periods of our civilization, when obedience and discipline held sway, no such over-sight was likely to occur.
Heart and Soul | Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)
British Dictionary definitions for oversight
/ (ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt) /
an omission or mistake, esp one made through failure to notice something
supervision
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