OVERSIGHT


Meaning of OVERSIGHT in English

o ‧ ver ‧ sight /ˈəʊvəsaɪt $ ˈoʊvər-/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable and countable]

[ Word Family: noun : ↑ sight , ↑ insight , ↑ oversight , ↑ sighting ; adjective : ↑ sighted , ↑ unsightly , ↑ sightless , ↑ insightful ; verb : ↑ sight ]

1 . a mistake in which you forget something or do not notice something:

I assure you that this was purely an oversight on my part.

2 . have oversight of something to be in charge of something:

He has general oversight of all training courses.

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THESAURUS

▪ mistake something incorrect that you accidentally do, say, or write:

a spelling mistake

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I made a mistake – it should say £230, not £320.

▪ error formal a mistake:

an error in the report

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grammatical errors

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He had made a serious error on his tax form.

▪ misprint a small mistake in something that is printed:

There was a misprint in the article, and instead of ‘pleasant’ it said ‘pheasant’.

▪ typo informal a mistake in something that has been typed or printed:

I spotted a couple of typos in the letter.

▪ inaccuracy formal a piece of information that is not completely correct:

The report contained several inaccuracies.

▪ mix-up a careless mistake in which one name, time, address etc has been confused with another, so that the details of something are wrong:

There was a mix-up over the train times and I missed my train.

▪ slip-up a careless mistake when you are doing something:

The other team took advantage of the goalie’s slip-up.

▪ oversight a mistake in which you forget something or do not notice something:

Through some oversight, the brochures were not ready by the right date.

▪ a slip of the tongue a mistake in which you accidentally say a similar sounding word:

When I said Thursday, I meant Tuesday. It was a slip of the tongue.

▪ faux pas /ˌfəʊ ˈpɑː, ˈfəʊ pɑː $ ˌfoʊ ˈpɑː/ formal an embarrassing mistake in a social situation, when you do or say something that you shouldn’t:

Harris, trying to be funny, addressed the waiter as ‘boy’. A deathly silence followed this faux pas.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.