over- +‎ sight.


oversight (countable and uncountable, plural oversights)

  2. Supervision or management.
    The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight.
  3. Overview
    • 1908 December 10, Charles W. Wendte, “Foreign Books”, in The Christian Register:
      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.



oversight (third-person singular simple present oversights, present participle oversighting, simple past and past participle oversighted)

  1. (transitive, nonstandard) To oversee; to supervise.
  2. (Internet, transitive, Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.
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