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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
Ed Gillespie

Meaning of "supervisor" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUPERVISOR

supervisor  [ˈsuːpəˌvaɪzə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUPERVISOR

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adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Supervisor is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUPERVISOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Supervisor

A supervisor, foreman, foreperson, boss, overseer, cell coach, facilitator, or area coordinator is a manager in a position of trust in business. The US Bureau of Census has four hundred titles under the supervisor classification. An employee is a supervisor if he has the power and authority to do the following actions: ▪ Give instructions and/or orders to subordinates. ▪ Be held responsible for the work and actions of other employees. If an employee cannot do the above, legally he or she is probably not a supervisor, but in some other category, such as lead hand. A supervisor is first and foremost an overseer whose main responsibility is to ensure that a group of subordinates get out the assigned amount of production, when they are supposed to do it and within acceptable levels of quality, costs and safety. A supervisor is responsible for the productivity and actions of a small group of employees. The supervisor has several manager-like roles, responsibilities, and powers.

Definition of supervisor in the English dictionary

The first definition of supervisor in the dictionary is a person who manages or supervises. Other definition of supervisor is a foreman or forewoman. Supervisor is also a tutor supervising the work, esp research work, of a student.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUPERVISOR


advertiser
ˈædvətaɪzə
adviser
ədˈvaɪzə
advisor
ədˈvaɪzə
deviser
dɪˈvaɪzə
devisor
dɪˈvaɪzə
divisor
dɪˈvaɪzə
ELISA
ɪˈlaɪzə
improviser
ˈɪmprəvaɪzə
improvisor
ˈɪmprəˌvaɪzə
Kaiser
ˈkaɪzə
organizer
ˈɔːɡəˌnaɪzə
previsor
prɪˈvaɪzə
provisor
prəˈvaɪzə
reviser
rɪˈvaɪzə
revisor
rɪˈvaɪzə
televisor
ˈtelɪˌvaɪzə
unvisor
ʌnˈvaɪzə
utiliser
ˈjuːtɪˌlaɪzə
visor
ˈvaɪzə
vizor
ˈvaɪzə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUPERVISOR

supervene
supervenience
supervenient
supervention
supervirile
supervirtuosi
supervirtuoso
supervirulent
supervisal
supervise
supervisee
supervision
supervision order
supervisorship
supervisory
supervisory board
supervolute
superwaif
superwave
superweapon

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUPERVISOR

academic advisor
careers advisor
common divisor
disseisor
faculty advisor
franchisor
greatest common divisor
incisor
promisor
recognisor
seisor
sun visor

Synonyms and antonyms of supervisor in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SUPERVISOR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «supervisor» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of supervisor

Translation of «supervisor» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUPERVISOR

Find out the translation of supervisor to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of supervisor from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «supervisor» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

导师
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

supervisor
570 millions of speakers

English

supervisor
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पर्यवेक्षक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُشْرِف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

руководитель
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

supervisor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্মকর্তা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

superviseur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyelia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Aufseher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

監督者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

감독자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pengawas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người giám sát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேற்பார்வையாளர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पर्यवेक्षक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gözetmen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

supervisore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nadzorca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

керівник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

supraveghetor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επόπτης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toesighouer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

handledare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

veileder
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of supervisor

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERVISOR»

The term «supervisor» is very widely used and occupies the 6.474 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERVISOR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «supervisor» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «supervisor» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about supervisor

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10 QUOTES WITH «SUPERVISOR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word supervisor.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.
2
Willard Boyle
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.
3
Kiki Dee
I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.
4
Ed Gillespie
When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
5
Shelley Hennig
I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.
6
Lee Iacocca
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
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James Meade
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
8
Alexandra Patsavas
As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.
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Alexandra Patsavas
I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'
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William Petersen
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERVISOR»

Discover the use of supervisor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to supervisor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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New Supervisor Training
Other books in this series: Leadership Training, Customer Service Training, New Employee Orientation Training, Leading Change Training.
John Jones, Chris Chen, 2006
2
The Effective Health Care Supervisor
Offers proven, hands-on, practical applications of both classic and current management principles in the healthcare setting.
Charles McConnell, 2011
3
The Essential Supervisor's Handbook: A Quick and Handy Guide ...
The key to a good business is good employees. The key to good employees? A great supervisor. The Essential Supervisor's Handbook provides a guide for both new and experienced supervisors featuring expert explanations, advice and motivation.
Brette McWhorter Sember, Terrence J. Sember, 2007
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Umiker's Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor
The Fifth Edition of Umiker’s Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor addresses continually changing circumstances in which Supervisors are faced with including smaller budgets, fewer workers, greater responsibilities and ...
Charles R. McConnell, 2010
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Supervision - the Organizational Role of Supervisors: What ...
The purpose of this book is twofold: (1) to delineate the unique functions of the firstline supervisors and to guide them in how they can function effectively in the "real world" and (2) to inform managers on what performance they should ...
Jack Asgar, 2008
6
The Good Supervisor: Supervising Postgraduate and ...
The book is also useful for students undertaking research. There is special focus on research skills development.and on supporting students through and beyond the examination process.
Gina Wisker, 2005
7
The New Supervisor: Strategies for Supporting and Managing ...
Overcoming these recurring problems requires a new approach. This book offers supervisors, bothe new and experienced, strategies, ideas, and other tools to overcome these problems by creating self-managed staff.
Linda LaPointe, 2002
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The Health Care Supervisor: Law
The focus of this classic collection of articles from The Health Care Supervisor is legislation and other legal matters as they may affect t he working health care supervisor.
Charles R. McConnell, 1993
9
Supervisor Training: Issues and Approaches
This book is a lively and readable resource that will be informative and inspirational for those planning for the future of training for supervisors of counselors, or who create, teach on or apply for supervisor training in the UK. It is ...
Penny Henderson, 2009
10
The Health Care Supervisor on Career Development
A collection of the best articles from The Health Care Supervisor, thi s book examines health care supervision in terms of the supervisory en vironment and the requirements of supervision, and the ways and means of approaching self-help in ...
Charles R. McConnell, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERVISOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term supervisor is used in the context of the following news items.
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Supervisor arrested for grand larceny
(WTVA) -- An Alcorn County supervisor is back in jail on grand larceny charges ... Chief Ralph Dance said District Two Supervisor Jimmy "Dal" Nelms, 47, turned ... «WTVA, Jul 15»
2
Son Of Powerful State Senator Threatened To "Smash In …
And when his supervisor asked him why he hadn't been at work, Adam Skelos said that he'd "smash" his head in. #LivingTheDream. Previously, it was revealed ... «Gothamist, Jul 15»
3
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl proposes same minimum wage hike as city …
Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said Monday that she intends to propose a minimum wage increase for county workers and businesses in ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
4
LA Supervisors approve ambitious plan for HIV-prevention drug …
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl authored the motion that gives the Departments of ... Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Hilda Solis amended the motion to also ... «89.3 KPCC, Jun 15»
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Benefits Supervisor Resting by Lucian Freud sells at auction for …
Brett Gorvy, international head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's, said: 'Benefits Supervisor Resting is recognised internationally as Freud's ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
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Ex-Flagler County supervisor of elections indicted
Kimberle Weeks, the former Flagler County Supervisor of Elections, turned herself in Wednesday morning on 12 felony counts resulting from a six-month ... «WJXT Jacksonville, May 15»
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Secret Service supervisor on leave after allegations
The U.S. Secret Service has placed a supervisor on administrative leave and suspended his security clearance, the agency confirmed late Wednesday night, ... «USA TODAY, Apr 15»
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Ex-Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. sentenced …
SAN JOSE -- The punishment imposed Friday on former Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. was as expected -- community service rather than ... «San Jose Mercury News, Apr 15»
9
IG: Former Hawaii VA Supervisor Circumvented Benefits Claims Policy
A former supervisor at the Honolulu Veterans Affairs regional office acted ... The former supervisor told the IG he was trying to “assist a veteran in need” when he ... «GovExec.com, Mar 15»
10
Former DSS supervisor: 'I should have done more and I apologize'
UNION COUNTY, N.C. -- Former Union County DSS supervisor Wanda Sue Larson pleads guilty to child abuse, but will likely spend little time in prison. «WCNC, Mar 15»

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