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:
   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. Lynn Lavner:

   The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

2. Ingeborg Oswald:

   If you're going to do this, you really really really need to research it and make sure wherever you find is properly supervised and there's medical supervision there, and maybe even staying in the United States if you need to do it.

3. Barack Obama:

   What Washington needs is adult supervision.

4. Mickey Mehta:

   Supervise your life, supervision means super-vision. Develop a vision of broadened horizons, deeper perspectives and neither jump to conclusions, nor jump to judgements impulsively without a 360 degree view. Have soulful eyes, MickeyMize.

5. Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president:

   The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.