Synonyms for oversight
ˈoʊ vərˌsaɪtover·sight

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1. oversight

   A person may look over a matter in order to survey it carefully in its entirety, or he may look over it with no attention to the thing itself because his gaze and thought are concentrated on something beyond; oversight has thus two contrasted senses, in the latter sense denoting inadvertent error or omission, and in the former denoting watchful supervision, commonly implying constant personal presence; superintendence requires only so much of presence or communication as to know that the superintendent's wishes are carried out; the superintendent of a railroad will personally oversee very few of its operations; the railroad company has supreme direction of all its affairs without superintendence or oversight. Control is used chiefly with reference to restraint or the power of restraint; a good horseman has a restless horse under perfect control; there is no high character without self-control. Surveillance is an invidious term signifying watching with something of suspicion. Compare CARE; NEGLECT.

   Synonyms:
   care, charge, command, control, direction, inspection, management, superintendence, supervision, surveillance, watch, watchfulness

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1. oversight

   Synonyms:
   error, omission, mistake, neglect, slip, inadvertence, inspection, superintendence

   Antonyms:
   scrutiny, correction, emendation, attention, mark, notice

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1. oversight, inadvertencenoun

   an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something

   Synonyms:
   supervision, unmindfulness, superintendence, supervising, inadvertence, inadvertency, heedlessness, lapse

2. supervision, supervising, superintendence, oversightnoun

   management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

   Synonyms:
   supervision, superintendence, supervising, lapse, inadvertence

3. oversight, lapsenoun

   a mistake resulting from inattention

   Synonyms:
   supervision, reverting, superintendence, relapse, supervising, reversion, inadvertence, relapsing, lapsing, lapse, backsliding

Matched Categories

1. • Management
   • Mistake
   • Omission

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. oversightnoun

   Synonyms:
   superintendence, control, direction, management, supervision, inspection, charge, care, SURVEILLANCE

2. oversightnoun

   Synonyms:
   error, blunder, mistake, slip, trip, lapse, miss, inadvertency

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1. oversightnoun

   Synonyms:
   superintendence, supervision, care, inspection, surveillance, control, charge, overlooking, connivance, omission, failure, inadvertence, default, inattention, lapse

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1. List of paraphrases for "oversight":

   monitoring, supervision, control, supervisory, surveillance, supervising, monitor, overseeing, censorship, supervise, scrutiny, controls, controlling, observation, inspection, screening, oversee, omission, supervised, watchdog, contrôle, observer, authority, checking, monitored

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1. University of Kentucky:

   A commitment we make and renew every day at the University of Kentucky is that the success of our students is at the center of everything that we do. But for that sentiment to be more than words, we must always act in ways that honor that commitment — especially when we discover rare instances where those who supervise and guide our students don't meet the standards of integrity we expect of each other. This is one of those times, the University of Kentucky has built the nation's premier collegiate cheerleading program. But regrettably, the integrity of the program has been compromised by inappropriate behavior by some squad members on off-campus trips and by lax oversight by the program's coaches and advisor.

2. Home Secretary Theresa May:

   It will provide the strongest safeguards and world-leading oversight arrangements, and it will give the men and women of our security and intelligence agencies and our law enforcement agencies ... the powers they need to protect our country.

3. Jon Ossoff:

   What we’ve found are shocking gaps in federal oversight, such as, for example, in 2021 alone, the Department of Justice failed to count nearly 1,000 deaths in jails and prisons nationwide.

4. Daniel Ross:

   When a facility knows someone is watching, those residents get better care, obviously, the ban of visitors is a real problem, but it doesn't make family oversight impossible.

5. Kevin Walling:

   I believe that the actions of both the House Ways and Means Committee and January 6thSelect Committee in the closing weeks of the year are more about accountability and the proper role of congressional oversight than any parting shots with GOP control on the horizon, there is a fine line between genuine fact findingand what the publicperceives as partisan oversight witch hunts that House Republicans will have to navigate in the new congress.