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# oversight

«oversight» in Mova's school dictionary: **A mistake made because you forgot or did not notice…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an oversight, oversights)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mistake made because you forgot or did not notice something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/#m1)

2) The job of watching over and being in charge of something (oversight of the project). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: "Leaving you off the list was an oversight, sorry." In formal reports: a committee has oversight of the school budget. Phrases: a simple oversight, by an oversight, have oversight of.

### examples

- Forgetting to invite Ben was an oversight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/#x1)
- The missing page was an oversight by the printer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/#x2)
- Sorry — it was a simple oversight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/#x3)
- The head teacher has oversight of all the classes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/#x4)
- By an oversight, the gate was left open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/#x5)
- An oversight in the plan left no time for lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/#x6)

### note

Trap: the two meanings are almost opposite — "an oversight" (a missed thing) and "oversight" (careful watching). Countable in the mistake sense. Do not confuse with "overlook" (to miss) or "foresight" (planning ahead).

### In the corpora

- ["An oversight" means a mistake caused by carelessness, something someone forgot or missed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oversight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oversight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.