Synonyms for Supervision
-ˈvɪʒ ənsu·per·vi·sion

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1. supervision

   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, oversight, superintendence, surveillance, watch, watchfulness

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1. supervision, supervising, superintendence, oversightnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   supervision, superintendence, supervising, oversight, lapse, inadvertence

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1. surveilance

   watch or kept over a person

   in grocery store there are always supervision

   Submitted by acronimous on September 18, 2014  

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1. supervisionnoun

   Synonyms:
   SUPERINTENDENCE

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1. List of paraphrases for "supervision":

   oversight, monitoring, surveillance, supervisory, control, supervising, overseeing, supervise, monitor, scrutiny, oversee, vigilance, authority, regulatory, supervised

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1. Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie:

   (These proceedings) are designed to work in very similar terms as a Chapter 11 (bankruptcy), but with the stark difference that they will be controlled by provisional liquidators under the supervision of the Bahamian courts rather than being controlled by Mr. Izmirlian.

2. Judge Charles:

   He's got to have a whole lot of supervision, somebody who's got eyes and ears on him like nobody's business.

3. Djoko Murjatmodjo:

   Where was the government's supervision?

4. President Hassan Rouhani:

   Under the supervision of the health ministry, all those low-risk economic activities will resume from Saturday except in Tehran, two thirds of all Iranian government employees will work out of the office from Saturday...The decision does not contradict stay at home advice by the health authorities.

5. Liu Bingjiang:

   This is a dereliction of supervision duty and it should be resolutely resisted.