supervision
Americannoun
Usage
What does supervision mean? Supervision is the act of overseeing or watching over someone or something.Supervision is the noun form of the verb supervise, meaning to oversee or watch over. You can supervise a project, but most of the time supervision means supervising people, especially parents supervising their children or a manager or supervisor supervising their employees.Someone or something being supervised is said to be under supervision. When it’s used in the context of adults watching children, the word often appears in the phrases parental supervision and adult supervision. Children or other people who can’t be left alone are said to need constant supervision.Example: All children in this building must be under adult supervision.
Other Word Forms
- nonsupervision noun
- presupervision noun
- prosupervision adjective
Etymology
Origin of supervision
1615–25; < Medieval Latin supervīsiōn- (stem of supervīsiō ) oversight, equivalent to super- super- + vīsiōn- vision
Example Sentences
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Specifically, Anthropic has said it does not want Claude to be used for either domestic surveillance of Americans, or to handle deadly military operations, such as drone attacks, without human supervision.
From Los Angeles Times
The app owned by Facebook parent Meta Platforms wrote in a blog post on Thursday that parents who have adopted Instagram’s supervision tools to monitor their children’s profile activity would start receiving alerts next week.
Omeprazole has been available for more than 30 years and is frequently used, sometimes for months or even years without medical supervision.
From Science Daily
"The lack of supervision can put people's health at serious risk, and there may also be concerns about the quality or authenticity of the products on offer," she says.
From BBC
Michelle Bowman, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, outlined a plan Monday that would reduce the amount of money banks are required to set aside to originate and hold mortgages.
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