OVERSIGHT

n. 1 omission, inadvertence, neglect, laxity, laxness, fault, failure, dereliction, error, mistake, blunder, carelessness, heedlessness It was owing to an oversight by a clerk that the flight booking was not made 2 supervision, superintendence, surveillance, management, direction, guidance, administration; charge, care, custody, keeping, hands, protection, auspices The matter of expenses must be left to the oversight of the committee established to deal with such things