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oversights

oversights is the plural of oversight.

Meaning of oversight

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
  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

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Questions about oversights

What is oversights the plural of?
Oversights is the plural of oversight.

Words near oversights in the dictionary

  1. oversighted
  2. oversighter
  3. oversighters
  4. oversighting
  5. oversightly
  6. oversights
  7. oversignal
  8. oversignaled
  9. oversignaling
  10. oversignalled
  11. oversignalling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversights (page history and authors); oversight (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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