supervisory
Americanadjective
Usage
What does supervisory mean? Supervisory is used to describe things that involve supervision, which is the act of overseeing, watching over, and providing direction for someone or something.Supervisory is an adjective form of the verb supervise, and it’s especially used in the phrases supervisory role and supervisory capacity, both of which refer to positions that involve supervision (or positions for which supervision is a responsibility).The word supervise often refers to supervising a project or people, parents supervising their children, or a manager or supervisor supervising their employees. Supervisory is most often used in the context of supervisors in the workplace or government agencies that conduct oversight.Example: I’ve been asked to come on in a supervisory capacity to oversee the project.
Other Word Forms
- nonsupervisory adjective
- unsupervisory adjective
Etymology
Origin of supervisory
Example Sentences
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According to university policy, a supervisor may not initiate or attempt to initiate an intimate relationship with someone over whom they exercise supervisory authority.
However, she doesn’t see this as a key personnel risk, as she reckons the chair is more of a supervisory role, while CEO Georges Elhedery will continue to lead the group’s operations and strategy execution.
They must also have, in their home country, a “regulatory and supervisory regime” that the U.S. secretary of the treasury sees fit and comparable to that of the U.S.
From Barron's
Fourth, the Fed under Janet Yellen and Mr. Powell has spent more than a decade negotiating bank regulatory and supervisory standards with its global counterparts in Basel, Switzerland.
Energoatom, the state nuclear company at the heart of the scandal, will have a new supervisory board "within a week," he added.
From BBC
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