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overseer::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | superintendent |
| Type of | supervisor |
| Has types | ramrod, school superintendent |
| Derivation | oversee |
Examples of overseer
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Those patronizing remarks sound as if they came from the overseer of a hacienda.
From the dailyherald.com
Riordan is serving as an overseer and working to bring more business to the city.
From the dailynews.com
Henson worked as an overseer throughout the rest of his time on the plantation.
From the en.wikipedia.org
That's just one human idea of God as overseer, and it's a childish idea of God.
From the washingtonpost.com
She said she wanted to reinforce the IMF's role as overseer of the global economy.
From the online.wsj.com
Ideal's original overseer, the D.C. school board, ceded control two years ago.
From the washingtonpost.com
Chi McBride is wasted as Chance's overseer, who does an awful lot of fretting.
From the suntimes.com
Chou was for a quarter-century the overseer of China's vast governing bureaucracy.
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Vice President Biden was supposed to be the great overseer of stimulus money.
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- A person who directs and manages an organization
- One who oversees or supervises. A supervisor
- (Overseers) A person hired by a slave owner to manage his/her plantation and his/her slaves
- (Overseers) Officials of a parish, between two and four in number, appointed by the Vestry. The duties of this unpaid post, first established in 1572, were primarily financial - to supervise the collection and distribution of the poor rate.
- (Overseers) Those members who are appointed by the Meeting to give pastoral care and nurture to all members and attenders.
- His job was to superintend the planting and work on the estates. He had charge of the overall maintenance of the property.(See Occupations)
- Person on a plantation paid a wage to organize the work of the enslaved people; manager
- A member of a meeting serving with responsibility for the general welfare of the members of that meeting.
- 1. (hist.) a convict who supervises the work of a party of convicts. 2. one who managers a rural property.
