supervisor
//ˈsuːpəˌvaɪzə(ɹ)//
Forms
- Plural
- supervisors
Definitions
1.A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
- I had learned a lot about supervising by observing other supervisors, the good things and the not-so-good things they did.
- The 1999 merger between Citibank (banking) and Travelers (insurance) created the model for megafinance and confirmed new challenges for supervisors.
2.A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
3.A process responsible for managing other processes.
- 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.
4.In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4215
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Attested since the 15th century C.E.; from Middle English supervisor, supervisour, supervysor, supervysour, from Latin supervīsor, from supervideō, in turn from super + videō.
By surface analysis, supervise + -or.