oversight
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈoʊvərˌsaɪt/
:
descuido
- Her failure to submit the assignment on time was a simple oversight.
- administrative oversight
- address this oversight
- oversight problem
I can't believe it's a huge oversight, the crypto stuff.
- I can't believe it's a huge oversight, the crypto stuff.
- There's been a huge oversight on our part.
- And it was a total oversight.
- It's amazing this podcast is still trucking along with such an oversight as massive as this.
- It lets it lets me down, I think because it's an oversight.
- And that is the the greatest oversight of the of the TSR company was that, yeah, kids who are into this stuff are lonely.
Examples
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But you know, it was just hey, it was just an oversight on my part.
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My name is not mentioned, an understandable oversight in the heat of victory.
Fiction book (1998) -
We realize this may be an oversight on your part.
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I guess an oversight by somebody.
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I would like to deal with each of the reasons for this oversight in more detail.
Academic text (1990) -
It's probably just an oversight.
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That is a major oversight.
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What an embarrassing oversight on my part.
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There's been a huge oversight on our part.
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Fortunately, there's time to rectify the that oversight.
Synonyms
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1.0
A wrong action or decision
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4.9
A short pause or mistake caused by losing attention
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1.6
A small mistake made by accident or carelessness
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5.4
A thing someone leaves out, often by mistake
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3.5
A small mistake that causes embarrassment
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3.0
A careless mistake that causes embarrassment or problems
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5.3
A small wrong action that causes embarrassment or harm to people's trust
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6.1
A careless mistake that causes problems or embarrassment
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3.7
A small careless mistake you make by accident
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7.7
An embarrassing mistake made when someone is careless or nervous
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7.7
A small unintentional mistake when speaking, writing, or performing an action
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7.0
A small mistake that does not cause much trouble
A small mistake made when writing by accident
A wrong understanding of what someone wrote or said
A small mistake that causes embarrassment or trouble
Antonyms
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oversight also comes from the parts over and sight, and a helpful way to remember the second sense is to think of something that was 'over your sight' so you did not see it. This image explains why oversight can mean an unintentional mistake or something missed.