oversight
Meaning of oversight
noun
- an unintentional failure to notice or do something.
he had simply missed Parsons out by an oversight
was the mistake due to oversight?
- the action of overseeing something.
effective oversight of the financial reporting process
Information about oversight
- It is a name.
- The plural form of oversight is: oversights.
- Languages in which oversight is used:
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Hyphenation of oversight
over-sight
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- oversight is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
oversight synonyms
Meaning inadvertence:
Meaning supervision:
supervision, supervising, superintendence
Meaning lapse:
Meaning an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong:
Meaning a mistake:
Meaning a break or other defect in an electric circuit or piece of machinery:
Meaning the neglect or omission of expected or required action:
Meaning a person or thing that has been left out or excluded:
Meaning an aspect of something that is not accurate:
Meaning a minor or careless mistake:
Meaning a stupid or careless mistake:
Meaning an act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgement:
Meaning a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test:
Meaning an embarrassing mistake:
Meaning failure to give sufficient attention to avoiding harm or errors; negligence:
Meaning lack of attention; distraction:
Meaning the state of being uncared for:
Meaning failure to take proper care over something:
Meaning lapse of memory:
Meaning lack of strictness or care:
Meaning the shameful failure to fulfil one's obligations:
Meaning close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal:
Meaning careful examination or scrutiny:
Meaning a price asked for goods or services:
Meaning the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something:
Meaning the process or activity of running a business, organization, etc:
Meaning the process of dealing with or controlling things or people:
Meaning the group of people with the authority to govern a country or state; a particular ministry in office:
Meaning a course along which someone or something moves:
Meaning the power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events:
Meaning an authoritative order:
Meaning feel or manipulate with the hands:
Meaning the protective care or guardianship of someone or something:
Translation of oversight
- French: surveillance, supervision
- Spanish: supervisión
- Portuguese: supervisão
- Italian: supervisione
Words that rhyme with oversight
costraight, noncostraight, overstraight, straight, unstraight, upstraight, bight, adight, bedight, benedight, dight, misdight, overdight, undight, Creight, Speight, Weight, affreight, aheight, airfreight, bantamweight, befreight, birthweight, bodyweight, breastheight, catchweight, countersleight, counterweight, cruiserweight, deadweight, downweight, eight, featherweight, flyweight, freight, heavyweight, height, hundredweight, inweight, keight, letterweight, lightweight, liveweight, makeweight, middleweight, outweight, overfreight, overheight, overweight, paperweight
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