HOW TO PRONOUNCE
oversight
/ˈoʊvɚˌsaɪt/
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What does oversight mean?
noun
- An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.
- Supervision or management.
- Overview.
More meanings (2)
verb
- To oversee; to supervise.
- To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈoʊvɚˌsaɪt/
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Rowland wondered whether he had forgotten it, and supposed that the oversight was a sign of the natural self-sufficiency of genius.
Phidias had the oversight of all the works, and was surveyor-general, though upon the various portions other great masters and workmen were employed.
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Much may be learned from such people by use of this specialty of theirs, while oversight thereof may render them hopeless as witnesses.
We must suppose this to be due to an oversight, as he gives the key moves of the four problems by English composers.
Nowhere, perhaps, is the constant vigilance of the physician so well rewarded as in the careful oversight of the pregnant woman.