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su·per·vi·sor

(so͞o′pər-vī′zər)

1. One who supervises.

2. One who is in charge of a particular department or unit, as in a governmental agency or school system.

3. One who is an elected administrative officer in certain US counties and townships.

su′per·vi′so·ry (-vī′zə-rē) adj.

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supervisor

(ˈsuːpəˌvaɪzə)

1. (Professions) a person who manages or supervises

2. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a foreman or forewoman

3. (Education) (in some British universities) a tutor supervising the work, esp research work, of a student

4. (Education) (in some US schools) an administrator running a department of teachers

5. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in some US states) the elected chief official of a township or other subdivision of a county

6. obsolete a spectator

ˈsuperˌvisorship n

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su•per•vi•sor

(ˈsu pərˌvaɪ zər)

n.

1. a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.

2. an official responsible for assisting teachers in the preparation of syllabuses, in devising teaching methods, etc., esp. in public schools.

3. the chief elective officer of a township.

[1425–75]

su′per•vi`sor•ship`, n.

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Noun	1.	supervisor - one who supervises or has charge and direction of bell captain - the supervisor of bellboys in a hotel counsellor, counselor - someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp den mother - someone who plays the role of a den mother; "he serves as den mother to all the freshmen in this dormitory"; "she's the den mother to new secretaries" theater director, theatre director, director - someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show boss, foreman, honcho, chief, gaffer - a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" forewoman - a woman in charge of a group of workers overseer, superintendent - a person who directs and manages an organization oyabun - a Japanese supervisor monitor, proctor - someone who supervises (an examination) director of research, research director - a supervisor in a research center stage manager, stager - someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed higher-up, superior, superordinate - one of greater rank or station or quality system administrator - a person in charge of managing and maintaining a computer system of telecommunication system (as for a business or institution) taskmaster - someone who imposes hard or continuous work trail boss - the person responsible for driving a herd of cattle
	2.	supervisor - a program that controls the execution of other programs executive program, supervisory program operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" executive routine, supervisory routine - a routine that coordinates the operation of subroutines

supervisor

noun boss (informal), manager, superintendent, chief, inspector, administrator, steward, gaffer (informal, chiefly Brit.), foreman, overseer, baas (S. African) a full-time job as a supervisor at a factory

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

supervisor

noun

Someone who directs and supervises workers:

boss, director, foreman, foreperson, forewoman, head, manager, overseer, superintendent, taskmaster, taskmistress.

Informal: straw boss.

Slang: chief.

Translations

مُشْرِف

dozordozorce-kakontrolor

tilsynsførende

Aufseher Aufsicht Wart

επόπτης

supervisor

valvoja

superviseur surveillant

nadglednik

umsjónarmaîur, stjórnandi

supervisore sovrintendente

監督者

감독자

supervisor

avdelingssjef tilsynsmann veileder

nadzorca

supervisor

руководитель смотритель

nadzornik

handledare

หัวหน้างานที่ควบคุมดูแล

amir denetçi müfettiş

người giám sát

导师监督者

supervisor

[ˈsuːpəvaɪzəʳ] N

1. (gen) → supervisor(a) m/f

2. (Univ) [of thesis] → director(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

supervisor

[ˈsuːpə^rvaɪzə^r] n (gen) → superviseur/euse m/f; (in shop) → chef mf de rayon (UNIVERSITY) [student] → directeur/trice m/f de thèse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

supervisor

n (of work) → Aufseher(in) m(f), → Aufsicht f; (of research) → Leiter(in) m(f); (Brit Univ) → ˜ Tutor(in) m(f); (for PhD) → Doktorvater m → /-mutter f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

supervisor

[ˈsuːpəˌvaɪzəʳ] n → sorvegliante m/f, soprintendente m/f, supervisore m (Univ) → relatore/trice; (in shop) → capocommesso/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

supervise

(ˈsuːpəvaiz) verb

to direct, control or be in charge of (work, workers etc). She supervises the typists.

ˌsuperˈvision (-ˈviʒən) noun

the act or work of supervising or state of being supervised. The firm's accounts are under the personal supervision of the manager; These children should have more supervision.

ˈsupervisor noun

a person who supervises.

supervisor

→ مُشْرِف dozor tilsynsførende Aufseher επόπτης supervisor valvoja superviseur nadglednik supervisore 監督者 감독자 supervisor veileder nadzorca supervisor руководитель handledare หัวหน้างานที่ควบคุมดูแล amir người giám sát 导师

supervisor

n. supervisor-a, jefe-a.

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Some news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole had found its way to Supervisor Dance and set him forth that night in our direction, and to that circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation from death.

In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in.

As soon as I was mounted, holding on to Dogger's belt, the supervisor gave the word, and the party struck out at a bouncing trot on the road to Dr.

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It is emphatically HIS end of the ship, though, of course, he is the executive supervisor of the whole.

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The community of fowls to which Tess had been appointed as supervisor, purveyor, nurse, surgeon, and friend, made its headquarters in an old thatched cottage standing in an enclosure that had once been a garden, but was now a trampled and sanded square.

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This supervisor of the proceedings, asserting his employers' rights to cart off by daylight, nightlight, torchlight, when they would, must have been the death of Silas if the work had lasted much longer.

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He liked my ideas and wanted to be a co-author and be my external supervisor...

EXPLORING THE SUPERVISION EXPERIENCES OF CHINESE OVERSEAS PHD STUDENTS IN NEW ZEALAND

The missing supervisor was identified as Liu, associated with Chinese company Sino Hydro Corporation, they added.

No clue of missing Chinese supervisor yet

Factors identified as being important are the quality of the supervisor-trainee relationship, establishing mutual respect and professional boundaries, conducting direct observations, providing constructive feedback, careful planning with SMART (specific, measureable, achievable, results orientated, time bound) learning objectives; these need to be agreed by trainee and supervisor as well as provisions for pastoral care through regular appraisals and reviews.

Staying ahead with trainee supervision requirements

Supervisors, on the other hand, are responsible for carrying out management of the team's operations and processes, the work of all individual direct reports, as well as technical work that only the supervisor can perform.

Six challenges to prepare for a new leadership role

The supervisor may find that management training and mentors may not have offered the tools to cope with these types of conduct problems.

Turning furious into curious

In primary school distance education, the role of the supervisor has been largely unexplored.

The challenges and opportunities experienced by parent supervisors in primary school distance education

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