From oversee + -er.
overseer (plural overseers)
- One who oversees or supervises.
- (historical) The manager of a plantation of slaves.
1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:It is often deemed advisable to knock a man slave down, in order to tie him, but it is considered cowardly and inexcusable, in an overseer, thus to deal with a woman.
- (historical) An officer responsible for the care of the poor, making out lists of voters and those who had not paid taxes, etc.
- (obsolete) A critic.
one who oversees
- Azerbaijani: nəzarətçi
- Bulgarian: надзирател (bg) m (nadziratel)
- Czech: dozorce (cs) m
- Danish: opsynsmand
- Dutch: opzichter (nl) m
- Egyptian: (jmj-r)
- Finnish: työnjohtaja (fi), valvoja (fi)
- French: contremaître (fr) m, chef (fr)
- Georgian: ზედამხედველი (zedamxedveli)
- German: Aufseher (de) m, Aufseherin (de) f
- Greek: επόπτης (el) m (epóptis), εργοδηγός (el) m or f (ergodigós), επιστάτης (el) m (epistátis), επιτηρητής (el) m (epitiritís)
- Ancient: ἐπόπτης m (epóptēs), ἔφορος m (éphoros), ἐπίσκοπος m (epískopos)
- Hindi: पर्यवेक्षक (paryavekṣak)
- Irish: feighlí m, maor m
- Italian: ispettore (it), capoccia m, supervisore (it) m, organizzatore (it) m, curatore (it) m
- Latin: curator (la) m, curatrix f; praefectus; praepositus
- Macedonian: надгле́дувач m (nadgléduvač), на́дзирач m (nádzirač), на́дзорник m (nádzornik)
- Persian: سرپرست (fa) (sarparast)
- Plautdietsch: Äwasechta m
- Polish: nadzorca (pl) m
- Portuguese: feitor (pt)
- Romanian: supervizor (ro) m
- Russian: надзира́тель (ru) m (nadzirátelʹ), надзира́тельница (ru) f (nadzirátelʹnica), надсмо́трщик (ru) m (nadsmótrščik), надсмо́трщица (ru) f (nadsmótrščica)
- Spanish: capataz (es)
- Swahili: msimamizi (sw)
- Swedish: förman (sv) c
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