1 (old-fashioned) a person whose job is to make sure that other workers do their work
2 a person or an organization that is responsible for making sure that a system is working as it should
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for overseer is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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