superv.

Noun

supervisor (plural supervisors)

1. A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
   • Near-synonyms: superintendent, manager, boss, executive, overseer

   Synonyms:

   superintendent, manager, boss, executive, overseer

2. A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
   • Kashruth fraud in Brooklyn. Seems a goon squad of fake mashgichim or kosher supervisors have been making their way around the neighborhoods pulling surprise ‘inspections’ on different shops and restaurants, selling them fancy-looking certificates to put in the window […]2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 24
3. (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
4. A process responsible for managing other processes.
   • The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14