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Definition of Overseer

1. Noun. A person who directs and manages an organization.

Definition of Overseer

1. n. One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.

Definition of Overseer

1. Noun. One who oversees or supervises. A supervisor. ¹

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Definition of Overseer

1. one that oversees [n -S] - See also: oversees

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overseer

Literary usage of Overseer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"He was the son of a shoemaker, and he became an overseer merely to keep out of the army. A majority of those who made overseeing their business had gone to ..."

2. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"It would do away with the office of overseer, tirely; or, in other words, ... ter himself into an overseer. It would occasion at loss of time ..."

3. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"She was whip- —severely whipped ; but she was not subdued, she continued to denounce the overseer, and to him every vile name. He had bruised her flesh, ..."

4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1901)
"It shall be the duty of each overseer of the poor to ascertain what societies for ... Whenever the overseer of the poor finds such societies to exist, ..."

5. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Eugene Allen Gilmore, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1909)
"brought by an overseer for two hundred dollars wages. ... 6 THE ROUTINE PROBLEMS AND POLICIES OF AN EFFICIENT overseer Letters of Elisha Cain, overseer on ..."

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