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oversight meaning

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WOversight
  • Oversight may refer to:
  • Oversight (horse), a French Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Regulation – rulemaking
  • Separation of powers (checks and balances) - the concept of separate branches of government or agencies exercising authority over one another
  • Congressional oversight exercised by the United States Congress
  • The ministry of episcopal oversight within Christian churches

    Definition of oversight in English Dictionary

  • NounPLoversightsPREover-
    1. An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
      1. A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later. ‎
    2. Supervision or management.
      1. It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
      • I must alert you all to a critical oversight in today's slashfic. Amid all the gleeful anal romping and glute-grinding cock-milking, where, o where, is the santorum?
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Morphemes
      • Prefixes
        • Words by prefix
          • Words prefixed with over-
      • Nouns
        • Countable nouns
      Related Links:
      1. en oversights
      2. en oversightly
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of oversight for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "oversight" is a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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