Overseer

Word OVERSEER
Character 8
Hyphenation o ver seer
Pronunciations /ˈəʊvəˌsiːə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Overseer"

What do we mean by overseer?

One who watches over and directs the work of others, especially laborers. noun

A supervisor or superintendent. noun

One who overlooks; a superintendent; a supervisor; one who has the care or superintendence of any matter. noun

Specifically, one who oversees or superintends workmen, especially slaves; one who has charge, under the owner or manager, of the work on a plantation, or, in Australia, on a station. noun

A reviser; a critic. noun

An executor or an adviser to an executor, formerly sometimes named in wills. noun

One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; ; specifically, one or certain public officers noun

One who oversees or supervises. A supervisor. noun

A person who directs and manages an organization noun

One who oversees or supervises.

A critic.

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The word "overseer" in example sentences

And their bailiff, a serf, or some overseer from the German natives, gets the peasant under his thumb again. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The method of the overseer is short and simple: apart from considerations of morality, conscience, and divine retribution, it seemed a short road to the accomplishment of his purpose. ❋ William Arnot (N/A)

Mr. L —, who for the last two years has been his own overseer, is also active and energetic, and busy from morning till night, and while superintending the management of the estate, is indefatigable and unceasing in his pastoral duties among the people. ❋ Unknown (1891)

One morning after breakfast, in the presence of Lincoln, who had stayed with him over night, and who was on his way to town, he called his overseer and said to him: ❋ Unknown (1868)

When they were fairly out of sight of the troopers, she called the overseer to the side of the coach. ❋ Unknown (1852)

"There is a word 'overseer' -- slaves have them," he said cautiously. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)

Your overseer is now you — and if you haven't been able to develop that, you're gonna be fucked. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The word "bishop" – "episkopos" in Greek, which primarily means "overseer" -- has already in the New Testament been fused together with the biblical concept of shepherd: He is the one who, from a higher vantage point, considers the whole, concerning himself with the right path and of the cohesion of the whole. ❋ Papabear (2008)

It was now half past ten, and I headed the horses back, in the direction in which I thought the camp lay, that I might be ready to call the overseer to relieve me at eleven. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The very stony character of the country we had been lately traversing and the singularly hard nature of the stone itself, had caused the shoes to wear out very rapidly, and there was hardly a horse in the teams that did not now require new shoes; fortunately we had brought a very large supply with us, and my overseer was a skilful and expeditious farrier. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The overseer was a reasonable sort of man, and I found old George had been as good as his word, and left word if a couple of men like me and Starlight came up we were to be put on with the next mob of cattle that were going to ❋ Unknown (2004)

The overseer was the person on the plantation who was the -- the -- usually a white man, but the man between the owner and the slaves. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The overseer was a sallow man on horseback in a straw hat and wool coat with his trousers tucked inside his muddy boots. ❋ James Lee Burke (1989)

When I first knew Mr. Swan's plantation, his overseer was a man who had been a Methodist minister. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

Her overseer was a large, fine looking young man named Roach. ❋ John Beatty (N/A)

The overseer was a mighty hard man, and he drew that long whip of his over her shoulders so often because she couldn't keep up with the other hands, that she ran away in the bush and was gone two days before they caught her. ❋ Laura S. Haviland (N/A)

An 'his overseer was a mighty big wicked black man; his name was Munday. ❋ Laura S. Haviland (N/A)

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