Noun: oversight 'ow-vu(r),sIt
- Management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
"She was given oversight of the new project";
- supervision, supervising, superintendence
- An unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
"The error in the contract was due to an oversight by the legal team";
- inadvertence
- A mistake resulting from inattention
"The accountant's oversight in the financial report cost the company dearly";
- lapse
Derived forms: oversights
Type of: direction, error, fault, management, mistake, omission
Encyclopedia: Oversight