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English
Etymology
Attested since the 15th century C.E.; from Middle English supervisor, supervisour, supervysor, supervysour, from Latin supervīsor, from supervideō, in turn from super + videō. By surface analysis, supervise + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
supervisor (plural supervisors)
- (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
1985, Drexel Library Quarterly, volume 21, page 104:Thus, today, even if the objective does seem "goalish," the supervisor assumes the problem inherent in trying to "accomplish" that goal will become clear to the librarian as the action plan evolves
2001, Wendy Dobson, Gary Hufbauer, World Capital Markets, →ISBN, page 103:The 1999 merger between Citibank (banking) and Travelers (insurance) created the model for megafinance and confirmed new challenges for supervisors.
2012, Kathryn M. Johnson, The Insider's Guide to Supervising Government Employees:I had learned a lot about supervising by observing other supervisors—the good things and the not-so-good things they did.
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 24:Kashruth fraud in Brooklyn. Seems a goon squad of fake mashgichim or kosher supervisors have been making their way around the neighborhoods pulling surprise ‘inspections’ on different shops and restaurants, selling them fancy-looking certificates to put in the window
- (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14:The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.
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Translations
a person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group etc.
- Arabic: مُشْرِف m (mušrif)
- Bulgarian: ръководител (bg) m (rǎkovoditel), надзорник (bg) (nadzornik)
- Catalan: supervisor m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 監督者 / 监督者 (zh) (jiāndūzhě), 管理者 (zh) (guǎnlǐzhě), 主管 (zh) (zhǔguǎn)
- Czech: dozorce (cs) m, inspektor (cs) m, dohližitel m
- Dutch: toezichthouder (nl) m, leidinggevende (nl)
- Finnish: esimies (fi) (superior who is responsible for overseeing the work of their subordinates), valvoja (fi) (general term for anyone tasked with overseeing)
- French: superviseur (fr) m
- Galician: supervisor (gl) m
- Georgian: უფროსი (uprosi), ხელმძღვანელი (xelmʒɣvaneli), მენეჯერი (meneǯeri), ზედამხედველი (zedamxedveli), ინსპექტორი (insṗekṭori), კონტროლერი (ḳonṭroleri)
- German: Aufseher (de), Vorgesetzter (de) m
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (faurstasseis)
- Greek: επόπτης (el) m (epóptis)
- Ancient: ἐπόπτης m (epóptēs), ἐπίσκοπος m (epískopos)
- Hindi: पर्यवेक्षक (paryavekṣak)
- Hungarian: munkafelügyelő (hu)
- Irish: maor m
- Italian: supervisore (it) m
- Japanese: 主管 (ja) (しゅかん, shukan), スーパーバイザー (sūpābaizā), 監督 (ja), 監察 (ja), 管理者 (ja), 管理人 (ja)
- Khmer: មេការ (mee kaa)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: چاودێر (ckb) (çawdêr)
- Miami: aahkohkinkia
- Middle English: surveyour
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oppsynsmann m
- Nynorsk: oppsynsmann m
- Plautdietsch: Äwasechta m
- Polish: naczelnik (pl) m, nadzorca (pl) m
- Portuguese: supervisor (pt) m
- Romanian: supervizor (ro) m
- Russian: нача́льник (ru) m (načálʹnik), руководи́тель (ru) m (rukovodítelʹ), (negative connotation) надсмо́трщик (ru) m (nadsmótrščik), (negative connotation) надзира́тель (ru) m (nadzirátelʹ), (manufacturing, construction) ма́стер (ru) m (máster), суперва́йзер (ru) m (supervájzɛr)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: супервизор m, надзорник m, надгледник m, надређени m, претпостављени m
- Roman: supervizor (sh) m, nadzornik (sh) m, nadglednik (sh) m, nadređeni (sh) m, pretpostavljeni (sh) m
- Spanish: supervisor (es) m, director (es) m
- Swedish: handledare (sv) c, förman (sv) c
- Tagalog: tagamasid
- Yiddish: אויגהאַלטער m (oyghalter)
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Pronunciation
Noun
supervisor m (plural supervisors, feminine supervisora, feminine plural supervisores)
- supervisor
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Portuguese
Etymology
From super- + visor.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: su‧per‧vi‧sor
Noun
supervisor m (plural supervisores, feminine supervisora, feminine plural supervisoras)
- (management) supervisor
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /supeɾbiˈsoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: su‧per‧vi‧sor
Noun
supervisor m (plural supervisores, feminine supervisora, feminine plural supervisoras)
- supervisor
- handler (e.g., a secret agent's handler)
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