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oversighters

oversighters is the plural of oversighter.

Meaning of oversighter

Noun

oversighter (plural oversighters)

  1. A person having oversight; an overseer or supervisor.
    • But there was nothing wrong about that because it fell within UN travel guidelines. Suspicious, yes; wrong, no, the “oversighters” said. Meanwhile, cryptic comments abound in the investigators' report, such as, “It is beyond the purview of this report to inquire into the vagaries of airline fares.”2005, Pedro Sanjuan, The UN Gang
  2. A user with special wiki privileges allowing them to hide deleted data from the publicly viewable logs.
    • Oversighters are allowed to hide revisions, user names, and other entries in an article's record of revisions (its log) so that only other oversighters and stewards can see them (called “suppression”).2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 34

Questions about oversighters

What is oversighters the plural of?
Oversighters is the plural of oversighter.

Words near oversighters in the dictionary

  1. overside
  2. oversides
  3. oversight
  4. oversighted
  5. oversighter
  6. oversighters
  7. oversighting
  8. oversightly
  9. oversights
  10. oversignal
  11. oversignaled

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