overseer

noun

over·​seer ˈō-vər-ˌsir 

ˈō-və-, 

-ˌsē-ər;

ˌō-vər-ˈsir, 

ˌō-və-, 

-ˈsē-ər

plural overseers

: a person who oversees others : a person with supervisory responsibilities

Her insider status was cemented in 1988 with a stint as … overseer of the party's nominating convention.

—Gwen Ifill

… suggests that in Upper Egypt the control of local affairs by the pharaoh's overseer was gradually diluted during the late Old Kingdom …

—Robert J. Wenke

Some pension funds proactively keep government overseers up to date so that they will not feel a need to be intrusive.

—Simon C. Y. Wong

Examples of overseer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The overseers noted, however, that the most zealous learners in the workhouse’s voluntary night literacy classes were Black men. —Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025

And Hudnell confirms that his club would be happy to maintain any sort of memorial approved by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), the de facto overseer of all 2,200 miles. —Grayson Haver Currin, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025

The trials were conducted by BAE Systems and the ship’s staff, and activity was monitored by SDA and Ministry of Defence naval architects and overseers. —Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025

Klopp still has a job in the game, as overseer of the Red Bull Group, which seems to consist of giving advice here and there, watching games, assessing potential signings and then persuading those signings to, erm, sign. —Nick Miller, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overseer

• mynheer
• seignior
• signior
• bilinear
• collinear
• nonlinear
• nonnuclear
• curvilinear
• interlinear
• rectilinear
• dier
• freer

Kids Definition

overseer

noun

over·​seer ˈō-və(r)-ˌsi(ə)r 

-ˌsē-ər;

ˌō-və(r)-ˈsi(ə)r, 

-ˈsē-ər

: one that oversees : superintendent