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overseer | Business English

overseer
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈəʊvəˌsiːər/us
WORKPLACE, MANAGEMENT
a person whose job it is to make certain that employees are working or that an activity is being done correctly:
As the nation's regulatory overseer, he could advance, delay, or cancel major initiatives.

Examples of overseer

overseer
The overseers (homen iin) measured the degree of poverty in almost the same way.
Applicants for casual relief first attended on the overseer or churchwarden of the individual parish, men who were appointed annually.
As we noted above, overseers often visited the urban poor and collected very essential data.
The overseers also offered other types of relief : finding employment and arranging for family registration, child care and health care.
Indeed, the pauper letters and overseer correspondence that underpin this article are permeated with positive and negative references to trust.
Churchwardens frequently controlled local charities and their accounts often include payments, particularly to the vagrant poor, that could have come from the overseers.
Property arrangements were frequently structured in terms of land usage, such that the group of individuals using a piece of land was its primary 'overseer'.
Many media outlets have editors who specialize in deciding what will fly with the political overseers.
He was accountant to the overseers and highway surveyors, and clerk to the local friendly society.
Reconstruction of how the sums raised were spent is much more difficult, especially for the period before overseers account books survive (from 1771).
Other paupers also actively sought testimony to the validity of the claims that they were making from the overseers of their current parish of residence.
What good was an education in theology or medicine for the factory overseer or the tax official?
These overseers often treated the cooperatives as mere extensions of the parastatals.
Older men and women were treated differently by overseers of the poor.
The main tasks of the overseers were the enumeration and relief of the poor.
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