'oversight' definitions:
Definition of 'oversight'
(from WordNet)
noun
An unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something [syn: oversight, inadvertence]
noun
Management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group [syn: supervision, supervising, superintendence, oversight]
noun
A mistake resulting from inattention [syn: oversight, lapse]
Synonyms of 'oversight'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accountability,
- administration,
- aegis,
- auspices,
- balk,
- bevue,
- blank,
- blunder,
- bossing,
- care,
- carelessness,
- charge,
- chasm,
- check,
- civil government,
- conduct,
- control,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- cure,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- default,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- direction,
- discipline,
- disconformity,
- dispensation,
- disposition,
- disregard,
- empery,
- empire,
- error,
- eye,
- failure,
- false move,
- false step,
- fault,
- form of government,
- governance,
- government,
- guard,
- guardianship,
- guidance,
- handling,
- hands,
- heedlessness,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- inobservance,
- intendance,
- jurisdiction,
- keeping,
- laches,
- laissez-faire,
- lapse,
- lapsus calami,
- lapsus linguae,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- loose thread,
- looseness,
- maintenance,
- management,
- ministry,
- miscue,
- misstep,
- mistake,
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- negligence,
- nonadherence,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformity,
- nonfeasance,
- nonfulfillment,
- noninterference,
- nonobservance,
- nonperformance,
- nonrestriction,
- omission,
- overlook,
- overlooking,
- pastorage,
- pastorate,
- pastorship,
- patronage,
- permissiveness,
- political organization,
- polity,
- poor stewardship,
- preterition,
- procrastination,
- protection,
- protectorship,
- regime,
- regimen,
- regnancy,
- regulation,
- reign,
- remissness,
- responsibility,
- rule,
- running,
- safe hands,
- skip,
- slackness,
- slight,
- slip,
- slipup,
- sovereignty,
- stewardship,
- stumble,
- superintendence,
- superintendency,
- supervision,
- surveillance,
- sway,
- system of government,
- trip,
- tutelage,
- unobservance,
- unrigorousness,
- ward,
- wardenship,
- wardship,
- watch and ward,
- wing,
- wrong step