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/ˈoʊvərsˌaɪt/ Listen

noun

Oversight n.

Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

An overlooking; an omission; an error.

Escape from an overlooked peril. (R.) "His fool-happy oversight."

Synonyms: Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking; inadvertence; neglect; mistake; error; omission.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Oversight" Quotes from Famous Books

... palace, at the king's expense. The latter seeing that his daughters' husbands were lazy fellows, determined to make them useful, so he sent Pusong and Amo-Mongo out to take charge of his estates in the country, while to Singalong he gave the oversight of the servants who worked in the ...

— Philippine Folk-Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington,

... said, turning back and smiling at his oversight. "We need a new director to take your father's place. When I'm away Burdon looks after things, so I suppose he may as well take the responsibility. It's a thankless position, but some ...

— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston

... effect they all make together.... I have been told that when Isadora watches her girls dance she often weeps, for then and then only she can behold herself. One of the griefs of an actor or a dancer is that he can never see himself. This oversight of nature Isadora ...

— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

... observers who see accurately to precision of gunner's skill, of powder, of fuse, of a hundred trifles which can never be too meticulously watched. The erring inspector of munitions far away oversea by an oversight may cost the lives of many soldiers or change ...

— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... his chief enjoyment in Hamilton's society. General Schuyler survived the death of several of his children and of his wife, but Hamilton's death killed him. Assuredly, life dealt generously with our hero in the matter of fathers, despite or because of an early oversight. James Hamilton had never made the long and dangerous journey to the North, and he had died on St. Vincent, in 1799, but what filial regret his son might have dutifully experienced was swept away on the current ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

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