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oversight

[oh-ver-sahyt]

noun

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.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English; see over-, sight

Can be confused: overlook, oversee, oversight.

Synonyms
1, 2. mistake, blunder, slip. 2. lapse, neglect, inattention. 3. management, direction, control; surveillance.

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Example Sentences

Federal dollars should come with enough oversight to ensure that home schooled students are actually learning something.

Maintain general administrative oversight of the projects.

The oversight board remains leaderless, though it has held its first meeting.

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Federal dollars should come with enough oversight to ensure that home schooled students are actually learning something.

Maintain general administrative oversight of the projects.

The oversight board remains leaderless, though it has held its first meeting.

Volunteers work closely with local guides and scientists, who lead the projects with clear goals and careful oversight.

University tightens oversight of sensitive research.

The signature price tag came a couple of years later, the result of a fortuitous oversight.

It can be easy to forget that oversight has two meanings.

But when senators are prepared, then they can exercise their oversight without listening to a long presentation.

American law allows such transactions to take place with the oversight of the government.

As work on the dam proceeds, opponents say construction quality has been compromised by corruption and lack of oversight.

Despite this, clinical trials of nanomedicines in humans have so far not been subject to specialized oversight.

Bill's problem with his employer's oversight was not so much ego, as a matter of his deeply ingrained sense of fairness.

Their vested interest has frustrated efforts at oversight.

Oil companies operated in the delta for years with little environmental oversight.

Government officials do not have to be the only ones exercising oversight.

There is little oversight on so-called terrorism experts who provide training to law enforcement and first responders.

It failed amid charges of price rigging and poor oversight.

There was indeed a call for tighter regulations and oversight of the building codes and those who enforce them.

The discovery has prompted calls for more effective oversight of the industry.

It also firmly re-establishes basic judicial oversight over all domestic surveillance in the future.

The bureau would have to consult with bank regulators, who could appeal against its decisions to the new oversight council.

All went well until an oversight on the part of one investigator ended their careers.

They also wanted it to exercise careful oversight over the executive branch.

The current climate of decreasing publishing revenues does not bode well for stronger editorial oversight.

Demands from opposition parties, and from some donors, for more civilian and local oversight were brusquely turned down.

Really, the last thing the world needed was yet another media without oversight.

Everyone agrees that the oversight of subprime-mortgage lending was inadequate.

Fidelity has tightened oversight of its trading desks.

The act's new oversight board aims to bring more and speedier discipline against rogue auditors.

Enforced economic oversight might have been sufficient sanction.

Even those that do are subject to the oversight of nontribal bureaucracies at both the state and federal levels.

Synthetic biology needs oversight not over-regulation, commission finds.

Congress has asked the agency to answer questions about the oversight of nonprofit hospitals other charities.

One of the folks who interviewed me was a higher-up in a different unit with oversight on.

New laws would ramp up federal oversight of food production, putting the heaviest burden on small farmers.

Additional responsibilities include library instruction and oversight of library exhibits.

Technological advances remove basis for government oversight of genetically modified crops.

New rules framed last year further tightened government oversight of private universities.

It has been revealed as plagued by backward technology, politically-biased oversight and local.

Report rebuts cancer claims and recommends changes to oversight and monitoring.

The successful candidate will provide high level technical direction, oversight and leadership to a broad array of programs.

The advocacy group also calls for more government oversight of the student-loan industry.

China's vast oversight apparatus keeps tabs on big and small outlets alike.

Universities, mortuaries and medical companies routinely buy and sell arms, legs and elbows with virtually no oversight.

Experience should include program development, strategic planning, operational oversight and fiscal management.

As well as creating a new office for financial oversight to keep watch on waste and.

But that oversight should not deter would-be viewers.

The new lines were created with extensive ethical oversight.

And colleges sometimes have trouble getting oversight right, the researchers said.

However, there would presumably need to be some oversight of any taxpayer subsidies they got.

Several agencies have already set advanced oversight procedures in place.

To say there is no oversight is irresponsible and misleading.

In recent years, such oversight has often been absent or fragmented.

Its weak oversight allowed a relatively junior employee to place bets worth more than the bank's entire capital.

Enron's energy exchange was, however, explicitly exempted from oversight by financial regulators:.

Transparency and oversight are the only ways to make these animals lives more humane.

It would be terrific if there were more oversight of pharmaceuticals, if they weren't so politically connected.

Another issue is whether international corporations are practically avoiding some forms of regulatory oversight.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

oversight (ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt)

—n
1.	an omission or mistake, esp one made through failure to notice something
2.	supervision

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Word Origin & History

oversight

14c., "supervision," from over + sight. Meaning "omission of notice, fact of passing over without seeing" attested from late 15c.; cf. oversee.

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