oversight
oversights
An oversight is a mistake you make when you're not paying full attention. Your failure to add the sugar to the cookies was an unfortunate oversight — you were so engrossed in texting that you forgot it.
Oversights are not intentional mistakes. Usually they're just the result of inattention. If you make an oversight in your inspection of a nuclear power plant and it later goes into meltdown, you'll get fired. An inspector is supposed to pay attention. But if you forgot your cousin's birthday because you're busy taking care of Grandma, that's a forgivable oversight. Oversight is also the act of supervising something, like the construction of a dam, or a high school prom.
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an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
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synonyms:
inadvertence
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type of:
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omission
neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
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omission
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a mistake resulting from inattention
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management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
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synonyms:
superintendence, supervising, supervision
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invigilation
keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating
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direction, management
the act of managing something
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invigilation
Vocabulary lists containing oversight
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