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Definition of Supervisors
1. supervisor [n] - See also: supervisor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supervisors
Literary usage of Supervisors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"The act of March, 1908, transferring jurisdiction in road cases from the circuit
court to the supervisors, contains the following provision: "12. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"These large boards of supervisors, are apparently organized as a local ...
In several other states there are county boards of supervisors composed of a ..."
3. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1846)
"An act authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Cayuga, ... An act
to authorize the election of three supervisors in the city of Utica. ..."
4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1896)
"When a petition is presented to the Board of supervisors of any county, as required
by section one of said Act, the said Board of supervisors may appoint a ..."
5. The Constitutional History of New York: From the Beginning of the Colonial by Charles Zebina Lincoln (1906)
"[Board of supervisors. ] —There shall be in each county, except in a county wholly
included in a city, a board of supervisors, to be composed of such ..."
6. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1889)
"Dual Civil Administration of the supervisors and Justices. By the act of 1703,
already mentioned,2 a representative board composed of the township ..."
7. The Supervision of Instruction by Hubert Wilbur Nutt (1920)
"Some agency must be set up whereby competent direction of the work of the
supervisors is systematically carried on throughout the school year. ..."
8. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"The act of March, 1908, transferring jurisdiction in road cases from the circuit
court to the supervisors, contains the following provision: "12. ..."
9. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"These large boards of supervisors, are apparently organized as a local ...
In several other states there are county boards of supervisors composed of a ..."
10. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1846)
"An act authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Cayuga, ... An act
to authorize the election of three supervisors in the city of Utica. ..."
11. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1896)
"When a petition is presented to the Board of supervisors of any county, as required
by section one of said Act, the said Board of supervisors may appoint a ..."
12. The Constitutional History of New York: From the Beginning of the Colonial by Charles Zebina Lincoln (1906)
"[Board of supervisors. ] —There shall be in each county, except in a county wholly
included in a city, a board of supervisors, to be composed of such ..."
13. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1889)
"Dual Civil Administration of the supervisors and Justices. By the act of 1703,
already mentioned,2 a representative board composed of the township ..."
14. The Supervision of Instruction by Hubert Wilbur Nutt (1920)
"Some agency must be set up whereby competent direction of the work of the
supervisors is systematically carried on throughout the school year. ..."