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Plural of supervisor

regular plural

The plural of supervisor is supervisors.

Forms of supervisor

Singularsupervisor /ˈsuːpəˌvaɪzə(ɹ)/
Pluralsupervisors
Countablecountable

Supervisors in a sentence

  • The 1999 merger between Citibank (banking) and Travelers (insurance) created the model for megafinance and confirmed new challenges for supervisors.2001, Wendy Dobson, Gary Hufbauer, World Capital Markets, →ISBN, page 103
  • I had learned a lot about supervising by observing other supervisors—the good things and the not-so-good things they did.2012, Kathryn M. Johnson, The Insider's Guide to Supervising Government Employees
  • Their supervisors keep the workers on a short leash.From the entry short leash
  • One of my supervisors chewed me out for rolling my eyes at her during meetings.2022, Devon Price, “Introduction”, in Michele Eniclerico, editor, Unmasking Autism, New York: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry chew out
  • The San Francisco board of supervisors is considering a so-called robot tax.2017 October 6, Claire Martin, “A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry robot tax

Meaning of supervisor

  1. noun A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
  2. noun A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
  3. noun In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.

Full definition of supervisor

Questions about the plural of supervisor

What is the plural of supervisor?
The plural of supervisor is supervisors.
Is supervisor countable?
Supervisor is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supervisor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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