supervisor
More important, he applied for a new job - a supervisory job - and got it.
The chancellor remains convinced that personnel decisions are exclusively the responsibility of the supervisory board.
a retired FBI supervisory agent who specialized in counterterrorism, counterintelligence and espionage
A higher proportion of staff will have trainee status and extra staff will be needed for the supervisory role.
He had no supervisory responsibility over athletics before then.

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Controlling and being in charge
aggrandize
assert your authority
assume
assumption
authoritative
cynical
get the better of someoneidiom
get your hooks into someone/somethingidiom
get/fall into the wrong handsidiom
govern
guiding principle
paternalistically
peremptorily
peremptory
play Godidiom
plenipotentiary
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wrangle
wrangler

supervisory | Business English

supervisory
adjective
 WORKPLACE, MANAGEMENTuk /ˌsuːpəˈvaɪzəri/us
relating to the work of making sure that workers and companies are obeying rules, doing their work correctly and safely, etc.:
Members of the public are angry about the supervisory and regulatory failings that allowed the financial crisis to develop.
supervisory capacity/role/positionHe will not be allowed to act in any supervisory capacity for three years.
supervisory authority/agencyThe bank will cooperate fully with the banking supervisory authorities in order to clarify the matter.
supervisory procedures/policies/powers
supervisory staff/personnel/workers

Examples of supervisory

supervisory
Some demonstrated multiple re-admissions of patients, reflecting a supervisory role of a proportion of their discharged patients in the community.
However, an arrangement that optimally delegates the monitoring role does exist and it resembles the special supervisory roles associated with central banking.
Under the drive system, the entrepreneur gave the foreman the supervisory activities previously undertaken by craft workers, in order to improve production and labour productivity.
Recently, due to changes in the supervisory and accounting rules, pension funds are required to value their liabilities at market prices.
Supervisory staff did not see unsealed and completed instruments.
The requirements, imposed with the advanced supervisory functions, have necessitated fulfillment of a number of conditions related to the corresponding program modules and internal database.
There are two main types of activities in managing the canal system: collective activities and supervisory activities.
In the questionnaire, we had a section that collected information on the time spent on collective and supervisory activities in managing canals.
It is possible that a disruption of this supervisory function at the anterior cingulate is responsible for the catatonic symptoms.
Using a runtime supervisory infrastructure allows us to specify metrics that would otherwise be impossible to guarantee.
This supervisory structure also applies to subnational levels for investment below certain thresholds.
Declaring insolvency power: whether supervisory authorities have the power to declare a deeply troubled bank insolvent.
So, we will restrict our attention to the supervisory authority's perspective.
The supervisory control of a system that is modeled with a finite state machine is a new research area.
Here the agreement made clear that the consultant had no direct service, supervisory, or administrative responsibility aside from agreed upon record keeping.
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