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单词 overseer
释义
overseer
noun[C]
old-fashioned
uk
/ˈəʊ.vəˌsiː.ər/us
/ˈoʊ.vɚˌsiː.ɚ/
apersonwhosejobit is to makecertainthatemployeesareworkingor that anactivityis being donecorrectly
监工，工头
Synonym
superintendent
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(Definition ofoverseerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

overseer| Business English

overseer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈəʊvəˌsiːər/us
WORKPLACE,MANAGEMENT
apersonwhosejobit is to makecertainthatemployeesareworkingor that anactivityis being donecorrectly:
As the nation'sregulatoryoverseer, he couldadvance,delay, orcancelmajorinitiatives.
(Definition ofoverseerfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverseer

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The overseers (homen iin) measured the degree of poverty in almost the same way.
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Applicants for casual relief first attended on theoverseeror churchwarden of the individual parish, men who were appointed annually.
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As we noted above, overseers often visited the urban poor and collected very essential data.
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The overseers also offered other types of relief : finding employment and arranging for family registration, child care and health care.
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Indeed, the pauper letters andoverseercorrespondence that underpin this article are permeated with positive and negative references to trust.
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Churchwardens frequently controlled local charities and their accounts often include payments, particularly to the vagrant poor, that could have come from the overseers.
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Property arrangements were frequently structured in terms of land usage, such that the group of individuals using a piece of land was its primary 'overseer'.
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Many media outlets have editors who specialize in deciding what will fly with the political overseers.
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He was accountant to the overseers and highway surveyors, and clerk to the local friendly society.
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Reconstruction of how the sums raised were spent is much more difficult, especially for the period before overseers account books survive (from 1771).
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Other paupers also actively sought testimony to the validity of the claims that they were making from the overseers of their current parish of residence.
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What good was an education in theology or medicine for the factoryoverseeror the tax official?
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These overseers often treated the cooperatives as mere extensions of the parastatals.
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Older men and women were treated differently by overseers of the poor.
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The main tasks of the overseers were the enumeration and relief of the poor.
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