Get to know Oversight better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like inadvertence or error.
Oversight meaning
- An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.
- Supervision or management.
- Overview.
Synonyms of Oversight
Using Oversight
- The main meaning on this page is: An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten. | Supervision or management. | Overview.
- Useful related words include: inadvertence, error, mistake, lapse.
- In the example corpus, oversight often appears in combinations such as: oversight of, oversight committee, house oversight.
Context around Oversight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oversight
- In this selection, "oversight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, house, regulatory, board, committee, district and built stand out and add context to how "oversight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include any independent oversight or aggressive and bunyoni s oversight as minister. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oversight" sits close to words such as accounting, bridges and subscription, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oversight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Additionally, investment custodians are subject to stricter regulatory oversight than banks. (11 words)
Additionally, it may be helpful to assign a specific committee to own cybersecurity oversight. (14 words)
Courtney Bublé covers the pandemic oversight and she joined GovExec Daily to discuss oversight of the pandemic response. (18 words)
Personal oversight of the Methodist Church is exercised by the President of the Conference, a presbyter elected to serve for a year by the Methodist Conference; such oversight is shared with the Vice-President, who is always a deacon or layperson. (41 words)
Allowing for that oversight, “Time Bomb Y2K” still speaks to the excesses of that earlier period in a way that connects directly to the present, providing a taste of how media frenzies happen filtered through the 20th century’s final freakout. (41 words)
Adams said the survey asked if it would give individuals confidence in the police service’s use of the program if the board developed a policy to ensure proper oversight of the use of video analytics. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Oversight Committee Chairman†James Comer, R-Ky., speaks during the House Oversight Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden, Sept. 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill.
So, those family-controlled companies with very little Board oversight, a lack of any independent oversight, or aggressive shareholder distributions are typically viewed negatively.
The new law leaves Reedy Creek and its debt obligations intact, changes its name to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and subjects it to closer oversight by the government in Tallahassee.
Courtney Bublé covers the pandemic oversight and she joined GovExec Daily to discuss oversight of the pandemic response.
Gowdy was the Chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee, charged with providing oversight over the White House and the administration when these investigations first started.
If anything, he said, the oversight built into the legislation is not partisan and conservatives should have a vested interest in ensuring that oversight works as written.
Tom Grove, executive vice president and chief business development officer, will be adding executive management oversight of the Claims Department to his existing oversight of the Business Development, Communications and Risk Services Departments.
At her request, Plaskett joined a third committee – Oversight and Reform – which investigates fraud, waste, abuse and performs general oversight of the federal government.
But whereas most democratic societies have at least some degree of oversight of state surveillance, we currently have almost no regulatory oversight of its privatised counterpart.
Contractor systems oversight: Finally, the auditors assessed the department’s oversight of vendors that work with or on VA networks and maintain at least some amount of government or patient data.
Personal oversight of the Methodist Church is exercised by the President of the Conference, a presbyter elected to serve for a year by the Methodist Conference; such oversight is shared with the Vice-President, who is always a deacon or layperson.
The elders together exercise oversight (episcopacy) over the local congregation, with superior groups of elders gathered on a regional basis exercising wider oversight.
According to the Decree, the heads of entities subject to oversight and the relevant ministers must implement the findings of the supervision conducted by the Authority.
Adams said the survey asked if it would give individuals confidence in the police service’s use of the program if the board developed a policy to ensure proper oversight of the use of video analytics.
Additionally, investment custodians are subject to stricter regulatory oversight than banks.
Additionally, it may be helpful to assign a specific committee to own cybersecurity oversight.
Advocates like Connie McKenzie with The Arc Pikes Peak Region worry about a lack of oversight, and about students getting stuck and never returning to public school.
A Japanese company embroiled in the Tokyo Olympic corruption scandal says it will strengthen oversight to prevent further wrongdoing.
Allowing for that oversight, “Time Bomb Y2K” still speaks to the excesses of that earlier period in a way that connects directly to the present, providing a taste of how media frenzies happen filtered through the 20th century’s final freakout.
Amnesty International has previously on human rights violations committed both by the police falling under Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni's oversight as minister, and by Désiré Uwamahoro, who has held several senior positions in the police.
Common combinations with oversight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- oversight of 34×
- oversight committee 27×
- house oversight 21×
- oversight and 20×
- the oversight 14×
- and oversight 13×
- oversight board 8×
- oversight on 7×
- oversight over 6×
- of oversight 6×