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oversight

noun
/ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt/UK/ˈoʊvɚˌsaɪt/US/ˈo̝vərˌsaɪt/

Etymology

From over- + sight. Verb sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Aufsicht.

  1. inherited from *sihti✻ — “seeing, sight”
  2. inherited from sihþ — “something seen; vision”
  3. inherited from sighte
  4. prefixed as oversight — “over + sight”

Definitions

  1. An omission

    An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.

    • A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later.

  2. Supervision or management.

    • oversight mechanism
    • The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight.
    • 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.

  3. Overview.

    • A large map of the kingdom, in which the Protestant churches, including the Unitarian, are indicated in colors, gives a convenient oversight of the matter treated of by the writer.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To oversee

      To oversee; to supervise.

    2. To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at oversight. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at oversight. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at oversight

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA