overlooker

British  

/ ˈəʊvəˌlʊkə /

noun

1. another word (less common) for overseer

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Example Sentences

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overlooker

Mr. Hamn's estate adjoined hers, and his overlooker relieved her of much care.

From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

I say, Louie, what's become of that smart pink dress you wore at last "wake," and of that overlooker, with the moustaches, from New Mills, you walked about with all day?'

From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Her father was a kind o’ overlooker to the Laird o’ Taggart, and so was reckoned weel-to-do.

From Seven Frozen Sailors by George Manville Fenn

I don't want to be made supervisor of mad-houses, or overlooker of light-ships.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Charles James Lever

I once heard a manufacturer ask an overlooker: “Is so and so not back yet?”

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley

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