Overseer
['əʊvəsɪə] or ['ovɚsɪr]
Definition
(n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Superintendent, inspector, supervisor, director, BOSS.
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Examples
- Common farmers seldom employ any overseer to direct the general operations of the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Nearly finished, sir, reported Dick, who was overseer. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Oh no, you won't, says our overseer. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- As he wouldn't go away, and shocked the company very much, our overseer sent him out a pound of potatoes and half a pint of oatmeal. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Well, one day he knocked down the overseer, and was fairly off into the swamps. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'm none o' yer gentlemen planters, with lily fingers, to slop round and be cheated by some old cuss of an overseer! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Very good, says our overseer, taking 'em away again, you won't get anything else here. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She was brought here last night,' replied the old woman, 'by the overseer's order. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Werner's father was an overseer of iron-works, and furnished his son with mineral specimens as playthings before the chil d could pronounce their names. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I broke a fellow in, once, said St. Clare, that all the overseers and masters had tried their hands on in vain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Overseers of Snaily parish against Crawley, Bart. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The magistrates, and overseers, and churchwardens, are always wanting his opinion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I don't keep none o' yer cussed overseers; I does my own overseeing; and I tell you things _is_ seen to. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He'll muster some of those old overseers on the other plantations, and have a great hunt; and they'll go over every inch of ground in that swamp. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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