oversight.

1. The monitoring of an activity to check how it is carried out.

2. A mistake caused by failing to notice or attend to something.

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Words that belong together

• independent oversight
• regulatory oversight

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Independent oversight exposed the gap between policy and practice.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, qualification. Commonness: moderately common.