Oversight

O′ver-sightˊ

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Noun.

1.

Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

2.

An overlooking; an omission; an error.

Hooker.

3.

Escape from an overlooked peril.

[R.]

“His fool-happy oversight.”

Spenser.

Syn. – Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking; inadvertence; neglect; mistake; error; omission.

, n.

1.

Superintendence; watchful care. 1Peter 5.

2.

Mistake; an overlooking; omission; error.

oversight ‎(countable and uncountable, plural oversights)

An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later.‎
Supervision or management.
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
  It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight.‎

omission

supervision