Oversight

Definition: Oversight

Oversight

Noun

1. An unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something.

2. Management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group.

3. A mistake resulting from inattention.

Date "oversight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Synonyms: Oversight

Synonyms: inadvertence (n), lapse (n), superintendence (n), supervising (n), supervision (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Direction	Supervision, superintendence; surveillance, oversight; eye of the master; control, charge; board of control; (council); command; (authority).
Error	Mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble; (failure); botchery; (want of skill); slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull; (absurdity); haplography.
Failure	Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk.
Inattention	Noun: inattention, inconsideration; inconsiderateness; Adjective: oversight; inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard.
Neglect	Noun: neglect; carelessness; Adjective: trifling; Verb: negligence; omission, oversight, laches, default; supineness; (inactivity); inattention; nonchalance; (insensibility); imprudence, recklessness; slovenliness; (disorder), (dirt); improvidence; noncompletion; inexactness; (error).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Clever	A penny saved is a government oversight. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (reference) Biotechnology in Society: Private Initiatives and Public Oversight (reference) Has Labor Law Failed: An Examination of Congressional Oversight and Legislative Proposals 1968-1990 (reference) Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight (reference) Military Training: Management & Oversight of Joint Combined Exchange Training (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Project On Government Oversight Reports (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Eric Hutchins, NOAA, checks to see that the ongoing work meets the project specifications. All projects conducted with community-based restoration funds receive NOAA oversight and management. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This requires extensive worker training, supervision, and regulatory oversight. (references)
		They worry about the lack of professional oversight and the concomitant potential for resident problems. (references)
		In addition to strengthening these safeguards, FDA has significantly increased its oversight of the blood industry. (references)
Business		According to the 1995 Central Bank law, the State Council maintains oversight of PBOC policies. (references)
		ENRE (Ente Nacional Regulador de Electricidad) and the Energy Secretariat of the Ministry of Economy provide regulatory oversight of power distributors, including compliance with investment commitments and service quality requirements. (references)
Children	Dominican Republic	Private institutions receive 35 to 40 percent of the budget of the Oversight Organization. (references)
	Bulgaria	These facilities are plagued by inadequate budgets, poorly trained and unqualified staff, and inadequate oversight. (references)
	Guatemala	The Social Secretariat for the Welfare of Children has oversight for the children's welfare program, treatment and training for children, and special education assistance for children. (references)
Civil Liberties	Thailand	It enjoys almost complete autonomy under the indirect oversight of the Mass Communications Authority of Thailand. (references)
	Czech Republic	There is also a nine-member Czech Television (CTV) Council charged with oversight of the public Czech Television. (references)
	Nepal	The excellent condition of the camps result from a combination of efficient UNHCR administration, conscientious government oversight and the refugees taking responsibility for their surroundings. (references)
Economic History	Ecuador	Autonomous agencies are subject to little effective oversight. (references)
	Sri Lanka	Many of these powers are shared or subject to central government oversight. (references)
	Belarus	Public demonstrations occurred frequently in 2001, but always under government oversight. (references)
Human Rights	Tunisia	A similar change in oversight of the parole system took place in July. (references)
	El Salvador	The system also has criminal sentencing courts and penitentiary oversight courts. (references)
	Pakistan	The decree effectively removed the actions of the Musharraf Government from judicial oversight. (references)
Indigenous People	Australia	The latter portfolio includes oversight of the Department of Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, previously its own department. (references)
	Colombia	Traditional Indian authority boards operate some 545 reserves; the boards handle national or local funds and are subject to fiscal oversight by the national Comptroller General. (references)
Political Economy	Russia	The FSB operates with only limited oversight by the Procuracy and the courts. (references)
Political Rights	Ghana	Parliament still was working to develop effective oversight of the workings of the executive branch. (references)
	Venezuela	On May 25, 2000, the Supreme Court ordered the delay and gave the Controller General oversight powers over the CNE. (references)
	Egypt	Many executive branch initiatives and policies are carried out by regulation through ministerial decree without legislative oversight. (references)
Trade	China	The State Council maintains oversight of PBOC policies. (references)
	Korea	More stringent prudential oversight has generally tightened bank credit. (references)
	Turkey	The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) is the agency responsible for offset oversight. (references)
Travel	Costa Rica	Costa Rica's air safety oversight program is rated Category One. (references)
	Costa Rica	It is in compliance with international aviation safety standards for oversight of Costa Rica's air carrier operations. (references)
	Ecuador	The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has assessed the Government of Ecuador's Civil Aviation Authority as Category 2 - not in compliance with international safety standards for the oversight of Ecuador's air carrier operations. (references)
Worker Rights	Lithuania	Also in October 2000, a new Law on Oversight of Potentially Dangerous Equipment was enacted. (references)
	Israel and the occupied territories	Any worker may challenge unsafe work practices through government oversight and legal agencies. (references)
	Bangladesh	Most child workers are employed in agriculture and other informal sectors, where no government oversight occurs. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Richard Shelby	We do the oversight, and we have legislation jurisdiction over the committees, but it is not our responsibility to furnish the intelligence to the policymakers. That is the responsibility and obligation of the community.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	The Congress adopted the President's proposed plan for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee was established to ensure that the Administration's decisions were implemented.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Oversight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.69% of the time. "Oversight" is used about 153 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.69%	151	25,596
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.65%	1	339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.65%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	153	N/A

Expressions using "oversight": by an oversight ♦ through an oversight. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "oversight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pavëmendje (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, obliviousness, wool gathering), lajthitje (aberration, craze, error, miscount, Miss, mistake). (various references)

Arabic		‏مراقبة (checking, control, inspection, keeping an eye on, lookout, monitoring, observation, spotting, superintendence, supervision, surveillance, watching), ‏سهو (distraction, inattention, omission), ‏خطاء (impropriety), ‏إغفال (omission), ‏إشراف (command, direction, domination, hand, nobility, overlooking, presidency, stewardship, superintendence, supervision, surveillance). (various references)

Bulgarian		контрол (charge, control, disposition, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, lordship, superintendence, whip hand), грижа (attention, care, concern, custody, heed, keeping, look out, regard, solicitude, study, tendance, trouble, worriment, worrit, worry), недоглеждане, надзор (care, control, inspection, regiment, superintendence, supervision, surveillance), пропуск (blank, countersign, flaw, gap, lapse, negligence, omission, out, pass, permit, pretermission, protection, safe conduct, skip, slip, slip up). (various references)

Chinese		失察. (various references)

Czech		omyl (error, fallibility, faux pas, lapse, Lapsus), přehlédnutí (goby, overlook, revision, slip), nedopatření. (various references)

Farsi		سهو (Blunder, Error, Goof, Inadvertent, Miscue, Slip, Wrong), ازنظرافتادگی (Disfavor), اشتباه نظری . (various references)

Finnish		huomaamattomuus (blunder, imperceptibility, inattention), erehdys (error, mistake, slip), epähuomio (slip). (various references)

French		oubli, omission, surveillance (overlooking, overseeing), méprise, erreur. (various references)

German		Versehen (aberration, accommodate, discharge, equip, error, fit, hold, inadvertence, look after, mistake, occupy, omit, overlook, perform, provide, provided, see to, stock, supply, take care of). (various references)

Greek		αβλεψία. (various references)

Hebrew		מש�'�" (blunder, error, false step, fault, mistake, slip up), מח�"ל (neglect, omission), פקוח (check, control, inspection, monitoring, open, supervision, surveillance, vigilant), �"תעלמות (disappearance, disregard, estrangement, oblivion, obliviousness, overlooking, skip), �"שמט�" (deletion, exception, omission, remission, skip), טעות (error, fault, mistake, slip up, wrong). (various references)

Hungarian		felügyelet (charge, control, custody, inspection, lookout, superintendence, supervision, surveillance, tutorage), elnézés (clemency, connivance, forbearance, grain of allowance, indulgence, lenience, leniency, sufferance, tolerance). (various references)

Italian		trascuratezza (carelessness, inaccuracy, neglect, negligence, slight), svista (blunder, inadvertence, inadvertency, slip), sorveglianza (custody, invigilation, keeping, stakeout, supervision, surveillance, watch), inavvertenza (inadvertence, inadvertency), granchiolino (crablet, mistake, prawn, shrimp), errore (aberrant, aberration, bug, error, fallacy, falsity, fault, lapse, mistake, slip), disattenzione (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inobservance), dimenticanza (carelessness, forgetfulness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inobservance, lapse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		見落とし (thing left unnoticed), 為落ち (omission), 為落し (omission), 抜かり (blunder, miss, slip), 漏れ (leakage, omission), 手落ち (omission), 手おち (omission), 手抜かり (mistake, omission). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しおとし (omission), しおち (omission), ぬかり (blunder, miss, slip), もれ (leakage, omission), みおとし (overlook, thing left unnoticed), ておち (omission), てぬかり (mistake, omission). (various references)

Korean		감독 (Foreman, Foremen, Overlooker, supervising, supervision, supervisory). (various references)

Manx		meehastid (absenteeism, absenteeism landlord, heedlessness, inattention, thoughtlessness), marranys (error, miscalculation, mistake, misunderstanding, slip up). (various references)

Pig Latin		oversightay.(various references)

Portuguese		vigilância (command, custody, outlook, ward, watch), superintendência (direction, inspectorate, streamline, superintendence), lapso (error, lapse, lapsus, slip, stumble, tripping), fiscalização (control, inspection, inspectorate, superintendence, surveillance), equívoco (equivocal, fishy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misconception, misjudgement, mistake, misunderstanding, questionable, quibble, quirk, slip-up, suspicious), distração (absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, amusement, avocation, distraction, diversion, failure, fun, recreation, wool-gathering), descuido (default, dereliction, disregard, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, neglect, negligence, slip-up). (various references)

Romanian		omisiune (deficiency, flaw, negligence, omission, out, overlooking, slip), supraveghere (charge, keeping, observation, superintendence, supervision, surveillance), neglijenţã (carelessness, casualness, inadvertence, inadvertency, negligence, regardlessness, remissness, slovenliness). (various references)

Russian		недосмотр (inadvertence, inadvertency). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		omaška (lapsus, sliding, slip), propust (lapse, omission, skip), previd. (various references)

Spanish		vigilancia (alertness, attendance, look out, maintenance, service, stake out, supervision, surveillance, vigilance, watch, watchfulness), superintendencia (superintendence), inadvertencia (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inobservance), equivocación (aberration, blunder, equivocation, error, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus, misapprehension, misconception, mistake, misunderstanding). (various references)

Swedish		förbiseende (inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse), översikt (conspectus, expose, outline, overview, schema, scheme, summary, survey, syllabus). (various references)

Turkish		nezaret (charge, keeping, supervision, surveillance), gaflet (blindness, heedlessness, unawareness), gözetim (custody, guard, observance, observation, superintendence, supervision, surveillance, ward, watch), gözden kaçırma, dikkatsizlik (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inobservance, negligence, oscitation, recklessness, want of care). (various references)

Ukrainian		необачність (gaffe, haste, hastiness, misdoing, negligence, precipitance, precipitancy), недогляд (default, dereliction, erratum, inadvertence, inadvertency, neglect, negligence, omission, overlook), нагляд (observation, supervision, surveillance, survey), похибка (fluff), догляд (attendance, attention, care, charge, keeping, ministration, watch). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự quên sót, sự giám thị (look-out, superintendence), điều lầm lỗi sự bỏ đi sự giám sát. (various references)

Welsh		goruchwyliaeth (agency, dispensation, operation, process), cyfarchwel (care, shelter), amryfusedd (blunder, error). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
French	1500-Modern	surveillance. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Erwtwmen de umaV adelfoi eidenai touV kopiwntaV en umin kai proistamenouV umwn en kuriw kai nouqetountaV umaV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Rogamus autem vos fratres ut noveritis eos qui laborant inter vos et praesunt vobis in Domino et monent vos
Old English	990	West Saxon	Nu, breþer, acsiaðwe eow þæt ge ariað þas þe weorcað swiðe sare be eow, þas þe sind ofer eow on Hælende and maniað eow.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And, britheren, we preien you, that ye knowen hem that trauelen among you, and ben souereyns to you in the Lord, and techen you,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	We beseche you brethren that ye knowe them which laboure amonge you and have the oversight of you in the Lorde
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 12
Cebuano	Apan mangamuyo kami kaninyo, mga igsoon, nga unta inyong pasidunggan sila nga mga nagapangabudlay diha kaninyo ug nagapangulo kaninyo diha sa Ginoo ug nagatambag kaninyo;
Croatian	Molimo vas, braæo: priznajte one koji se trude meðu vama, koji su vam predstojnici u Gospodinu i opominju vas;
Danish	Men vi bede eder, Brødre! at I skønne på dem, som arbejde iblandt eder og ere eders Forstandere i Herren og påminde eder,
Dutch	En wij bidden u, broeders, erkent degenen, die onder u arbeiden, en uw voorstanders zijn in den Heere, en u vermanen;
Finnish	Mutta me pyydämme teitä, veljet, antamaan tunnustuksenne niille, jotka tekevät työtä teidän keskuudessanne ja ovat teidän johtajanne Herrassa ja neuvovat teitä,
French	Nous vous prions, frères, d`avoir de la considération pour ceux qui travaillent parmi vous, qui vous dirigent dans le Seigneur, et qui vous exhortent.
German	Wir bitten aber euch, liebe Brüder, daß ihr erkennet, die an euch arbeiten und euch vorstehen in dem HERRN und euch vermahnen;
Haitian Creole	Frè m' yo, m'ap mande nou pou nou gen anpil respè pou moun k'ap travay nan mitan nou yo, moun Seyè a chwazi pou dirije nou, pou ankouraje nou.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Saudara-saudara, kami minta dengan sangat supaya kalian menghargai orang-orang yang bekerja di tengah-tengahmu; yaitu mereka yang sudah dipilih oleh Tuhan untuk memimpin dan menasihati kalian.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Hai saudara-saudaraku, kami mintalah kamu menghormatkan orang-orang yang berlelah di antara kamu, dan yang mengepalai kamu di dalam Tuhan, dan yang memberi kamu nasehat;
Italian	Vi preghiamo poi, fratelli, di aver riguardo per quelli che faticano tra di voi, che vi sono preposti nel Signore e vi ammoniscono;
Latvian	Bet mçs jûs lûdzam, brâïi, esiet atzinîgi pret tiem, kas jûsu labâ strâdâ, kas Kunga vârdâ ir jûsu priekðnieki un kas jûs pamâca.
Maori	He mea ia tenei na matou ki a koutou, e oku teina, kia matau ki te hunga e mahi ana i roto i a koutou, e tohutohu ana i a koutou i roto i te Ariki, e whakatupato ana i a koutou;
Norwegian	Men vi ber eder, brødre, at I skjønner på dem som arbeider iblandt eder og er eders forstandere i Herren og formaner eder,
Rumanian	Vq rugqm, frayilor, sq priviyi bine pe ceice se ostenesc kntre voi, cari vq ckrmuiesc kn Domnul, wi cari vq sfqtuiesc.
Russian	рТПУЙН ЦЕ ЧБУ, �'ТБФЙС, ХЧБЦБФШ ФТХ�"СЭЙИУС Х ЧБУ, Й � ТЕ�"УФПСФЕМЕК ЧБЫЙИ Ч зПУ� П�"Е, Й ЧТБЪХНМСАЭЙИ ЧБУ,
Shuar	Yatsurú, juna seajrume. Atumjai pujuinia Nú shuar Yúsnan takakmainiakui shiir Enentáimtustarum. Jintintramuk chichartamainiakui umirkatarum.
Swahili	Ndugu, tunawaombeni muwastahi wale wanaofanya kazi kati yenu, wale wanaowaongoza na kuwafundisheni kuhusu maisha ya Kikristo.
Swedish	Vi bedja eder, käre bröder, att rätt uppskatta de män som arbeta bland eder, och som äro edra föreståndare i Herren och förmana eder.
Uma	Ompi' -ompi', kiperapi' bona nibila' -ra to mpokamu bago Pue' hi laintongo' -ni, apa' hira' to jadi' totu'a-ni hi rala Pue' pai' to mpoparesai' -koi.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "oversight": oversights. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Oversight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oversigth, oversit, oversite, overtight, overwight. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "oversight" (pronounced ō"versī't)
3	-s ī' t	andesite, anthracite, calcite, eyesight, foresight, granulocyte, hindsight, insight, leukocyte, lymphocyte, magnesite, parasite, phagocyte, plebiscite, website.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-o-r-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: eightvos, ghostier, vertigos.
	-2 letters: eightvo, goiters, goitres, goriest, grivets, heriots, hogties, hoister, ogreish, resight, shortie, sighter, thrives, vertigo.
	-3 letters: egoist, eights, ergots, girths, givers, goiter, goitre, griots, griths, grivet, groves, heriot, hogtie, horste, hosier, hovers, ogives, ogrish, orgies, others, reshot, righto, rights, rivets, shiver, shover, shrive, shrove, sigher, sortie, soviet, stiver, stogie, stover.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-o-r-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: overlights, overnights, oversights.
	+2 letters: overflights, overweights.
	+3 letters: earthmovings, overhuntings, overnighters, overshooting, overtightens.
	+5 letters: overbreathings, overharvesting, overstretching.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
accounting board company oversight public	36
enterprise federal housing office oversight	35
oversight	11
accounting board oversight public	10
government oversight project	9
cmm oversight planning tracking	6
care oversight plan	6
intelligence oversight	5
board oversight public	5
enterprise federal housing oversight	4
congressional oversight	3
accounting board oversight	3
bill corporate oversight	3
corporate oversight	3
enforcement law lay oversight	2
board irs oversight	2
government oversight pogo project	2
oversight committee	2
federal housing office oversight	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Oversight

Definition: Oversight

Oversight

Noun

Synonyms: Oversight

Synonyms within Context: Oversight

Direction

Error

Failure

Inattention

Neglect

Crosswords: Oversight

Modern Usage: Oversight

Clever

Commercial Usage: Oversight

Books

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Photo Album: Oversight

Non-Fiction Usage: Oversight

Spoken Usage: Oversight

Richard Shelby

Speeches: Oversight

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Oversight

Expressions: Oversight

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oversight

Modern Translation: Oversight

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Ancestral Language Translations: Oversight

Bible Trace: Oversight

Matched Bible Translations: Oversight

Derivations & Misspellings: Oversight

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Rhyming with "Oversight"

Anagrams: Oversight

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