supervisor

• supervisour (obsolete)

Attested since the 15th century C.E.; from Middle English supervisor, supervisour, supervysor, supervysour, from Latin supervīsor, from supervideō, in turn from super + videō.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːpəˌvaɪzə(ɹ)/, enPR: so͞op′ərvīz'ər

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsupɚˌvaɪzɚ/

supervisor (plural supervisors)

1. (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
2. A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
3. (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
4. (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
   • 1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14:

     The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.

• script supervisor

• supervise
• supervisee
• supervision
• supervisory

• manager
• on-call supervisor
• superintendent

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “supervisor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• proviruses

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˌsu.pər.biˈzo]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˌsu.pər.viˈzo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˌsu.peɾ.viˈzoɾ]

supervisor m (plural supervisors, feminine supervisora)

1. supervisor

• supervisar
• supervisió

• “supervisor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “supervisor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “supervisor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From super- +‎ visor.

• Hyphenation: su‧per‧vi‧sor

supervisor m (plural supervisores, feminine supervisora, feminine plural supervisoras)

1. (management) supervisor

• IPA^(key): /supeɾbiˈsoɾ/ [su.peɾ.β̞iˈsoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: su‧per‧vi‧sor

supervisor m (plural supervisores, feminine supervisora, feminine plural supervisoras)

1. supervisor
2. handler (e.g, a secret agent's handler)

• “supervisor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014