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oversight

An oversight is something that someone does by mistake, without seeing that they are doing it. He didn't thank me, but I'm sure that was just an oversight. Oversight is the action of watching and making sure people do things right. We have many ordinary workers, and a manager for oversight. On Wikipedia, oversight is deleting pages or parts of pages so that not even administrators can see the part that was deleted. I put my email address on Wikipedia by mistake, but I asked for oversight so that no one would see it.

oversight

a mistake resulting from inattention an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something (= supervision) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

Synonyms oversight synonyms

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Topics oversight topics

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Simple sentences

It was simply an oversight.
That is a serious oversight.
If an oversight is the reason why you have not paid, please send us the amount due, and let us solve the problem immediately.
Tom said that the mistake was due to an oversight.
Maybe it was just an oversight.
It was an oversight.
I admit that it was my oversight.

Movie subtitles

He is quite right, Miss Claythorne, it is an unfortunate oversight.
Oh, an oversight.
Purely an oversight, officer.
I trust it was purely an oversight.
I had hoped it was merely due to some oversight.
Darling, it was probably an oversight.
An odd oversight for a man who thinks of everything.
In a society as well organized as this one seems to be, I cannot conceive of such an oversight going uncorrected.
Now, this time, due no doubt to some organizational oversight, you arrived there before the crime.
As it is, I know it was only an oversight.
An unfortunate oversight, Doctor. It won't occur again.
Take care of that oversight, will you, Mr Sulu?
Uh, an oversight on my wife's part.
With great sadness I must inform you that by an oversight. the copy of the Czechoslovak film did not arrive on time.
A sad oversight.
It would be too bad to have anything go wrong through so simple an oversight.
It was just an oversight.
An oversight.
If you don't overlook your obligation to me. I trust it was purely an oversight.
I had hoped it was merely due. to some oversight.
Perhaps an oversight.
Probably an oversight at headquarters.
I consider it the perfect oversight.
Colonel Klink, I know it's just an oversight, but I haven't yet been able to advise this prisoner of his rights under the Geneva Convention.
Now this is a very special occasion, and although I don't know the nature of your mission-- an oversight, I'm sure-- ( laughs ): I am aware that this must be a task that will bring greater glory to the Third Reich.
Of course this is my responsibility and oversight.
I don't doubt that it was an accident. the elevator door, through an oversight, was left open.
In a society as well organised as this one seems to be, I cannot conceive of such an oversight going uncorrected.
An oversight?
Ostap decided to fix the reprehensible oversight.
What an oversight.
Unfortunately if by an oversight. we have not met maximum detention time.
That was an unfortunate oversight.
It was an oversight?
I'm sorry, my lady, it was an oversight.

News and current affairs

Private oversight can often produce better and more efficient construction, and, in theory, toll roads help alleviate traffic congestion.
For example, Japan's nuclear regulatory authority was not sufficiently independent, and oversight of the plant operator, TEPCO, was weak.
Some prominent policymakers and analysts, however, argue that oversight aimed at identifying and stemming systemic risk is futile.
Opponents of prudential oversight of systemic risk take two different positions.
The Party has been dreaming of this kind of oversight ever since its revolutionary days.
A proper, functioning elected legislature has been created, which is very important because democratic oversight is the most reliable anti-corruption watchdog.
Other areas of the economy require greater government oversight as well.
Of course, politicians prefer to work in secrecy, without oversight.
Thus, even when regulatory agencies are crucial to encouraging competition in telecommunications, regulators are often given control over areas where there is no particular reason for government oversight.
In Bucharest recently, I was discussing the oversight role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in my country, Albania, with an expert from that body.
The problem with such intrusive oversight is that political issues that incite the strongest passions -- such as determining electoral lists -- are suppressed when an international body offers and imposes its own solutions.
A stultifying form of international oversight that offers only fiat or imposed conciliation paralyzes their domestic political development.
Unfortunately, the sudden devolution of health responsibilities to the country's provinces occurred without adequate preparation or oversight.
The European parliament is also not yet a real parliament, with control of the purse and oversight of the executive.
The new Commission will attempt to change this by focusing on rule implementation and oversight, rather than creation.
With little authority to initiate legislation, the Parliament, too, will have no choice but to pivot toward oversight.
Instead, the world must focus on the second phase, because it is weapons potential that is the looming danger, and it is here that internationally mandated mechanisms for oversight and supervision exist.
Moreover, while China is not alone in censoring the Internet, self-policing by many of the nation's largest portals amplifies official oversight and surveillance.
Rather, it comes from the way in which the know-how that China has gained in fashioning domestic cyber oversight is proving invaluable to it in its efforts to engage in cyber intrusion across its frontiers.
The department heads and oversight committees that meet to evaluate programming seldom dictate content, but merely pass their complaints and recommendations down to programming heads.
Other areas of the economy require greater government oversight as well. Network industries like telecoms, gas, electricity, and water tend to become monopolistic or oligopolistic if left to market forces alone.
That is a grave oversight, for it is clear that Russian foreign policy has again taken a provocative and confrontational turn.

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