Supervisor

Quick meaning: Supervisor is a noun meaning (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.

Meaning

(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.

More Meanings

1. A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
2. (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
3. (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: superintendent, manager, boss, executive, overseer

I had learned a lot about supervising by observing other supervisors—the good things and the not-so-good things they did.

The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.

The 1999 merger between Citibank (banking) and Travelers (insurance) created the model for megafinance and confirmed new challenges for supervisors.

Word Forms

• supervisors
• supervisour

Synonyms for supervisor

Depending on context, synonyms include superintendent, manager, boss, executive, overseer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include manager, superintendent, comptrollership, supervision, comptroller, boss.

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