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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

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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How to use oversight in a sentence?

1. Larry Cosme:

   To compensate for their failures, USSS executive leadership provided Congressional oversight entities USSS employee’s personal cell phone numbers from employee personnel records. These personal records were released without the employee’s consent.

2. Andrew Bailey:

   It would not be the best outcome to adopt a special treatment for the oversight of outsourced service provision arrangements involving the UK and EU when there are already arrangements in place which can form the basis of an equivalence arrangement.

3. Peter Goelz:

   These documents show there's a still a long way to go and that The FAA needs to double down on the oversight of regional carriers, particularly during times of financial stress.

4. Sarah Sanders:

   The administration stands ready to work with Congress to accommodate oversight requests consistent with applicable standards, including the need to protect intelligence sources and methods.

5. Mark Carney:

   We, the Fed, all the major global central banks and supervisors, would have direct regulatory (oversight).