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Synonyms for supervision
-ˈvɪʒ ənsu·per·vi·sion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
supervision
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, oversight, superintendence, surveillance, watch, watchfulness
Princeton's WordNet
supervision, supervising, superintendence, oversightnoun
management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
Synonyms:
superintendence, supervising, oversight, lapse, inadvertence
Editors Contribution
surveilance
watch or kept over a person
in grocery store there are always supervision
Submitted by acronimous on September 18, 2014
Dictionary of English Synonymes
supervisionnoun
Synonyms:
SUPERINTENDENCE
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "supervision":
oversight, monitoring, surveillance, supervisory, control, supervising, overseeing, supervise, monitor, scrutiny, oversee, vigilance, authority, regulatory, supervised
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#205 | management | |
#309 | care | |
#333 | control | |
#871 | watch | |
#1362 | command | |
#1431 | authority | |
#1453 | charge | |
#1877 | monitor | |
#1964 | monitoring | |
#2372 | direction | |
#3436 | regulatory | |
#3437 | inspection | |
#6025 | surveillance | |
#6229 | supervision | |
#10114 | oversight | |
#12345 | scrutiny | |
#13187 | supervisory | |
#13466 | supervised | |
#17935 | oversee | |
#18697 | supervise | |
#19790 | supervising | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#24576 | overseeing | |
#29889 | vigilance | |
#93827 | superintendence | |
#147712 | watchfulness | |
#175027 | inadvertence |
How to use supervision in a sentence?
Where was the government's supervision?
In prisons, the patients could not run away, and they had no other option but to take their drugs as prescribed under supervision.
Young children cannot and should not operate a microwave without supervision.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf:
An increase in the minimum wage will lead to increases in employee morale, productivity, and quality of work and decreases in turnover and the cost of training and supervision.
Looking at individual tragic cases in isolation may contribute to the speculation that releasing individuals before trial rather than incarcerating them – whether by placing them on Electronic Monitoring (EM) or other forms of supervision – means an increase in crime, but speculation based on isolated cases is not the same as reality based on a complete picture, and research has shown that bail reform has not led to an increase in crime.
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