supervision.

The monitoring and guidance of someone else's work or activity.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• under supervision
• clinical supervision

On the page

The trainees worked under close supervision.

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, description. Commonness: moderately common.