1 [C,U] the fact of making a mistake because you forget to do sth or you do not notice sth:
I didn't mean to leave her name off the list; it was an oversight. * You can never entirely eliminate human error and oversight.
2 [U] (formal) the state of being in charge of sb/sth:
The committee has oversight of finance and general policy.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for oversight is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is oversight a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, oversight is tagged as noun.
Does oversight appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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