supervisor
Other forms: supervisors
A supervisor is the person in charge at your job, who monitors you as you work. Your supervisor prepared you for the world of sneaker sales, and makes sure you don't give them away free to your friends.
To supervise means to oversee, so a supervisor is someone whose job it is to oversee everyone else as they work. If you're the supervisor of a big kitchen, you probably won't spend time chopping onions, but instead wander around making sure everyone has their hair back and is using the right ingredients and working quickly. Sometimes in very complex problems, a whole organization can be a supervisor, like a city department that oversees the police.
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one who supervises or has charge and direction oftypes:bell captainthe supervisor of bellboys in a hotelden mothersomeone who plays the role of a den motherdirector, theater director, theatre directorsomeone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a showforewomana woman in charge of a group of workersoyabuna Japanese supervisorstage manager, stagersomeone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performedsystem administratora person in charge of managing and maintaining a computer system of telecommunication system (as for a business or institution)taskmastersomeone who imposes hard or continuous worktrail bossthe person responsible for driving a herd of cattleprefectan older student, especially in a private school, who monitors or supervises other studentsbaasSouth African term for `boss'gangerthe foreman of a work ganginvigilatorsomeone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheatingramroda harshly demanding overseerschool superintendentthe superintendent of a school systemslave drivera supervisor of slaves at workstage directorsomeone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage showtaskmistressa woman taskmastertype of:
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a program that controls the execution of other programssynonyms: executive program, supervisory programtype of:computer program, computer programme, program, programme(computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
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