Word Meanings - OVERSEER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERSEER)

• manager
• Director
• superintendent
• overseer
• supervisor
• Superintendent
• Inspector
• controller
• director
• visitor
• head
• principal

Related words: (words related to OVERSEER)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• SUPERVISORY
  Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• OVERSEERSHIP
  The office of an overseer.
• MANAGERY
  1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• CONTROLLER
  An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls
• OVERSEER
  One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
• INSPECTORATE
  Inspectorship.
• MANAGERIAL
  Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.
• PRINCIPALLY
  In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.
• VISITOR
  1. One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship. "This great flood of visitors." Shak. 2. A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or
• INSPECTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
• DIRECTORATE
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• VISITORIAL
  See VISITATORIAL
• DIRECTOR
  A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.