Supervision
noun
The act of watching and managing a task or people doing a task.
The children were playing under the supervision of their parents.
Often appears as...
- under supervision
- supervision of
noun
The act of regularly checking a person's work or progress.
Her PhD research was conducted under the supervision of Professor Smith.
Often appears as...
- under supervision
- supervision by
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Academic
noun
The responsibility for someone's activities and for ensuring that they are doing or have done what they should.
It is the bank's responsibility to exercise proper supervision of its employees.
Often appears as...
- proper supervision
- supervision obligation
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Formal
Technical
noun
The act of watching and managing a task or people doing a task.
The children were playing under the supervision of their parents.
Often appears as...
- under supervision
- supervision of
noun
The act of regularly checking a person's work or progress.
Her PhD research was conducted under the supervision of Professor Smith.
Often appears as...
- under supervision
- supervision by
Usage tips
Academic
noun
The responsibility for someone's activities and for ensuring that they are doing or have done what they should.
It is the bank's responsibility to exercise proper supervision of its employees.
Often appears as...
- proper supervision
- supervision obligation
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Presence
Implies someone responsible is present to oversee activities, ensuring safety or correctness.
The machine can only be operated under the supervision of a qualified technician.
Pro Tip 2/3Parental Care
Often used to describe a protective watchfulness by parents or guardians.
Children must not be left at the pool without parental supervision.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Alone
Highlights that a task is not to be done in isolation but with oversight.
The interns completed the project with constant supervision from their managers.
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Presence
Implies someone responsible is present to oversee activities, ensuring safety or correctness.
The machine can only be operated under the supervision of a qualified technician.
Pro Tip 2/3Parental Care
Often used to describe a protective watchfulness by parents or guardians.
Children must not be left at the pool without parental supervision.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Alone
Highlights that a task is not to be done in isolation but with oversight.
The interns completed the project with constant supervision from their managers.
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Presence
Implies someone responsible is present to oversee activities, ensuring safety or correctness.
The machine can only be operated under the supervision of a qualified technician.
Pro Tip 2/3Parental Care
Often used to describe a protective watchfulness by parents or guardians.
Children must not be left at the pool without parental supervision.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Alone
Highlights that a task is not to be done in isolation but with oversight.
The interns completed the project with constant supervision from their managers.
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Mental Health for All by...
We need to deliver health care, not in large institutions, but close to people's homes, and we need to deliver health care using whoever is available and affordable in our local communities. And importantly, we need to reallocate the few specialists who are available to perform roles such as capacity-building and supervision.
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and give the youngsters under my supervision, be it in athletics or the English classroom, something to which to aspire, other than just a higher mark in the classroom, or more points in some athletic contest. I thought about that for quite a spell, and I wanted to come up with my own definition. I thought that might help.
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Itamar Mann: A new...
The human rights community cheered. I was not one of those who cheered. In my scholarship, I predicted that this kind of decision could also generate bad results. States determined to enforce their own borders could turn back asylum seekers even before they enter the supervision of their own courts.
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Interview: Paul Sereno PIPE...
you know it without any adult supervision got stuck in the margins of a lake and gave us really the first population of dinosaurs the first natural herd of dinosaurs that has ever been recovered but snapshots like this from the fossil record I would help us
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Part Ape, Part Human:...
over my postdoctoral supervision and I said no you're a lab guy I'm not a lab guy I can't teach you this stuff but I've just found this site and if you're willing to learn to be a field guy I'll take you out there and let's see what
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How do we learn to work...
And they spent hundreds of extra hours with simulators and recordings of surgery, when you were supposed to learn in the OR. And maybe most importantly, they found ways to struggle in live procedures with limited expert supervision.
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Award-winning teen-age...
So, armed with all the wisdom of freshman year biology, I decided I wanted to do cancer research at 15. Good plan. So I started emailing all of these professors in my area asking to work under their supervision in a lab.
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True success - John...
youngsters under my supervision I had three rules pretty much that I stuck with practically all the time I'd learned these prior to coming to UCLA and I decided they were very important
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How I unlearned...
not under any form of state supervision. I'm married to a tremendous woman named Holly, and together, we are raising two sons who I encourage to experience emotions in a safe way.
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Is Your Perfume Made...
Well, there aren't left any actually, it is almost extinct in the wild. And the few that are there are in the reserve forests under the supervision of government.
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Mental Health for All by...
We need to deliver health care, not in large institutions, but close to people's homes, and we need to deliver health care using whoever is available and affordable in our local communities. And importantly, we need to reallocate the few specialists who are available to perform roles such as capacity-building and supervision.
Video examples
The difference between...
and give the youngsters under my supervision, be it in athletics or the English classroom, something to which to aspire, other than just a higher mark in the classroom, or more points in some athletic contest. I thought about that for quite a spell, and I wanted to come up with my own definition. I thought that might help.
Video examples
Itamar Mann: A new...
The human rights community cheered. I was not one of those who cheered. In my scholarship, I predicted that this kind of decision could also generate bad results. States determined to enforce their own borders could turn back asylum seekers even before they enter the supervision of their own courts.
Video examples
Interview: Paul Sereno PIPE...
you know it without any adult supervision got stuck in the margins of a lake and gave us really the first population of dinosaurs the first natural herd of dinosaurs that has ever been recovered but snapshots like this from the fossil record I would help us
Video examples
Part Ape, Part Human:...
over my postdoctoral supervision and I said no you're a lab guy I'm not a lab guy I can't teach you this stuff but I've just found this site and if you're willing to learn to be a field guy I'll take you out there and let's see what
Video examples
How do we learn to work...
And they spent hundreds of extra hours with simulators and recordings of surgery, when you were supposed to learn in the OR. And maybe most importantly, they found ways to struggle in live procedures with limited expert supervision.
Video examples
Award-winning teen-age...
So, armed with all the wisdom of freshman year biology, I decided I wanted to do cancer research at 15. Good plan. So I started emailing all of these professors in my area asking to work under their supervision in a lab.
Video examples
True success - John...
youngsters under my supervision I had three rules pretty much that I stuck with practically all the time I'd learned these prior to coming to UCLA and I decided they were very important
Video examples
How I unlearned...
not under any form of state supervision. I'm married to a tremendous woman named Holly, and together, we are raising two sons who I encourage to experience emotions in a safe way.
Video examples
Is Your Perfume Made...
Well, there aren't left any actually, it is almost extinct in the wild. And the few that are there are in the reserve forests under the supervision of government.
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Carl Honore
Canadian Journalist
When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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Alexandra Patsavas
American Musician
I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.
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Gail Simmons
Canadian Entertainer
I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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Bhushan Kumar
Indian Producer
I personally get into the supervision of every song, from the lyrics to the artiste, I oversee everything before it goes out to the world.
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Jack Vance
American Author
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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Wilbur Ross
American Businessman
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.
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Molly Ivins
American Journalist
Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.
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Jose Manuel Barroso
Portuguese Politician
We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.
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Barack Obama
American President
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Pat Paulsen
American Comedian
I don't need adult supervision.
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Carl Honore
Canadian Journalist
When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
Quote examples
Alexandra Patsavas
American Musician
I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.
Quote examples
Gail Simmons
Canadian Entertainer
I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
Quote examples
Bhushan Kumar
Indian Producer
I personally get into the supervision of every song, from the lyrics to the artiste, I oversee everything before it goes out to the world.
Quote examples
Jack Vance
American Author
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
Quote examples
Wilbur Ross
American Businessman
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.
Quote examples
Molly Ivins
American Journalist
Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.
Quote examples
Jose Manuel Barroso
Portuguese Politician
We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Pat Paulsen
American Comedian
I don't need adult supervision.
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