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oversight

/ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt/US/ˈoʊvɚˌsaɪt/

oversight noun: an omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.

Noun

oversight (countable and uncountable, plural oversights)

  1. An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.
    • A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later.
  2. Supervision or management.
    • oversight mechanism
    • The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight.
  3. Overview.
    • A large map of the kingdom, in which the Protestant churches, including the Unitarian, are indicated in colors, gives a convenient oversight of the matter treated of by the writer.1908 December 10, Charles W. Wendte, “Foreign Books”, in The Christian Register

Verb

oversight (third-person singular simple present oversights, present participle oversighting, simple past and past participle oversighted)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To oversee; to supervise.
  2. (Internet, transitive) To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.

oversight meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

oversight in Hindi

supervision
पर्यवेक्षण paryavekṣaṇ

oversight in Tamil

அசிரத்தை, அஜாக்கிரதை, கண்காணி, கவனக் குறைவு, கவனக்குறைவு, மேற்பார்வை செய்பவர்

oversight in Urdu

oversight, slip
خطا xatā

oversight in Bengali

ভুলবশত এড়িয়ে যাওয়া, তদারকি
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oversight in Malayalam
പാളിച്ച pāḷicca
oversight in Kannada
ತಪ್ಪು, ಕಣ್ತಪ್ಪು, ಅಜಾಗರೂಕತೆ, ಉಪೇಕ್ಷೆ
oversight in Punjabi
خطا xat̤ā, ਖ਼ਤਾ xatā, ਉਕਾਈ ukāī

Examples of oversight in a sentence

  • It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
  • The drone operation is subject to strict regulatory oversight.2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, page 50:

All 37 example sentences with oversight

Forms of oversight

Noun
pluraloversights
Verb
third-person singular presentoversights
present participleoversighting
past participleoversighted
pastoversighted

Plural of oversight: oversights

Origin of oversight

From over- + sight. Verb sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Aufsicht.

Words formed from oversight

Questions about oversight

What does oversight mean?
Oversight means an omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.
What is oversight in Hindi?
Oversight in Hindi is पर्यवेक्षण (paryavekṣaṇ). See Oversight meaning in Hindi.
How do you use oversight in a sentence?
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
What part of speech is oversight?
Oversight can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce oversight?
Oversight is pronounced /ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of oversight?
The plural of oversight is oversights.

Words near oversight in the dictionary

  1. oversialylated
  2. oversialylation
  3. oversick
  4. overside
  5. oversides
  6. oversight
  7. oversighted
  8. oversighter
  9. oversighters
  10. oversighting
  11. oversightly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oversight (page history and authors); oversight (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خطا (Urdu) (page history and authors); Oversight (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പാളിച്ച (Malayalam) (page history and authors); oversight (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خطا (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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