supervisors

noun

plural of supervisor
as in managers
a person who manages or directs something the salesclerk said she would have to ask her supervisor if I could return the defective CD without a receipt

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Recent Examples of supervisors The supervisors voted unanimously to advance the moratorium, and the crowd erupted. — Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026 Forty-nine of 177 new supervisors who were part of the audit didn’t receive training within six months of being hired. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Pack and Agyeman brought the matter to their supervisors, Ercan and Bossert, TDLR said. — Doug Myers, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 County supervisors sought to codify that decision in perpetuity by passing a sanctuary policy a year later. — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026 His company serves as a representative for songs when music supervisors look to place them in movies. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026 The supervisors who wrote the motion, Paloma Aguirre and Terra Lawson-Remer, say that lengthy waits at the border are the responsibility of the federal government. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 They are accused of falsifying overtime claims, forging approvals from supervisors and manipulating official records. — Ben Conarck, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2026 Lauren’s supervisors resent her choice of victim and try to suppress evidence. — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supervisors
  1. managers
  2. executives
  3. administrators
  4. directors
  5. superintendents
Noun
  • Broadcom's financing initiatives with asset managers is another potential topic on the earnings all.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
  • That could give infrastructure managers a more practical way to prioritize inspections.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of managers
Noun
  • The offer does not apply to employees on contract, which means that most high-level Disney executives do not qualify.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Multiple top tech executives come from this sales tradition, such as Dev Ittycheria, the CEO of MongoDB, Cedric Pesh, MongoDB’s CRO, Dan Fougere, the CRO of Datadog—and Dali Rajic.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of executives
Noun
  • Independent monitor reports from June 22 to July 3 show that as a result of staffing issues, administrators paused admission of new patients.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026
  • School administrators later determined that no student by that name was enrolled there, according to the affidavit.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of administrators
Noun
  • Head scribes Chris Ord and Matt Corman, and episodic directors for the remainder of the series, were let go.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Projects must be led by LGBTQ+ directors and screenwriters, or by professionals whose dissident gender identities and expressions inform their creative perspectives.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of directors
Noun
  • In March, the department sent a letter to state superintendents about compliance obligations under FERPA.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The 40-member commission includes legislators, college presidents, superintendents, teachers’ union leaders, CBIA, and state officials, among others.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of superintendents

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“Supervisors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supervisors. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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