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What (who) is overseer - definition
Overseer
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Overlooker; Overseer (disambiguation); Overseers
·noun One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
overseer
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Overlooker; Overseer (disambiguation); Overseers
(overseers)
1.
An overseer is someone whose job is to make sure that employees are working properly.
I was put in the tailor shop, and I loved it. I was promoted to overseer.
= supervisor
N-COUNT
2.
If a person or organization is the overseer of a particular system or activity, they are responsible for making sure that the system or activity works properly and is successful.
...the department's dual role as overseer of oil production and safety.
N-COUNT: usu with poss
overseer
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Overlooker; Overseer (disambiguation); Overseers
n.
Superintendent, inspector, supervisor, director, oversman.
Examples of use of overseer
1. Its independent Overseer Board fired him Saturday.
2. None of them has the time or energy to be an effective overseer.
3. Attorney David Laufman is President Bush‘s pick to be the Pentagon‘s chief overseer of internal investigations.
4. He complained: "The US ambassador is not [former US overseer of Iraq L Paul] Bremer.
5. One witness told how Sergeant Nuri, the overseer of the camp, bragged about raping children.