Antonyms for oversight
ˈoʊ vərˌsaɪtover·sight

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. oversight

   A person may look over a matter in order to survey it carefully in its entirety, or he may look over it with no attention to the thing itself because his gaze and thought are concentrated on something beyond; oversight has thus two contrasted senses, in the latter sense denoting inadvertent error or omission, and in the former denoting watchful supervision, commonly implying constant personal presence; superintendence requires only so much of presence or communication as to know that the superintendent's wishes are carried out; the superintendent of a railroad will personally oversee very few of its operations; the railroad company has supreme direction of all its affairs without superintendence or oversight. Control is used chiefly with reference to restraint or the power of restraint; a good horseman has a restless horse under perfect control; there is no high character without self-control. Surveillance is an invidious term signifying watching with something of suspicion. Compare CARE; NEGLECT.

   Synonyms:
   care, charge, command, control, direction, inspection, management, superintendence, supervision, surveillance, watch, watchfulness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. oversight

   Antonyms:
   scrutiny, correction, emendation, attention, mark, notice

   Synonyms:
   error, omission, mistake, neglect, slip, inadvertence, inspection, superintendence

Matched Categories

1. • Management
   • Mistake
   • Omission

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. oversight, inadvertencenoun

   an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something

   Synonyms:
   supervision, unmindfulness, superintendence, supervising, inadvertence, inadvertency, heedlessness, lapse

2. supervision, supervising, superintendence, oversightnoun

   management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

   Synonyms:
   supervision, superintendence, supervising, lapse, inadvertence

3. oversight, lapsenoun

   a mistake resulting from inattention

   Synonyms:
   supervision, reverting, superintendence, relapse, supervising, reversion, inadvertence, relapsing, lapsing, lapse, backsliding

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1. oversightnoun

   Synonyms:
   superintendence, supervision, care, inspection, surveillance, control, charge, overlooking, connivance, omission, failure, inadvertence, default, inattention, lapse

How to use oversight in a sentence?

1. Kristina Moore:

   This change to the House rules represents a further expansion of the majority's oversight and investigations targets, for which everyone in the private sector needs to prepare.

2. Lisette Burton:

   Layers of oversight are important. There are regulations that ORR has for providers serving unaccompanied children and that's layered on top of state protections.

3. President Biden:

   Today, I am directing the Secretary of Education – an educator himself – to take additional steps to protect our children, this includes using all of his oversight authorities and legal actions, if appropriate, against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local school officials and educators.

4. Kevin Sabet:

   Right now, the Big Marijuana business is taking a page out of Big Tobacco of the 1950s -- advertising and making claims without any scientific merit or oversight.

5. James Comer:

   We’re looking at it on House Oversight and Accountability Committee from a Hunter Biden family influence peddling deal and from the angle that we have legislative restriction over the National Archives.

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