supervision

See also: supervisión

English

Etymology

From Latin supervisiō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌsupəɹˈvɪʒən/, [ˌsupɚˈvɪʒən]

  • Audio (Southern California):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsʉːpəˈvɪʒən/
• Hyphenation: su‧per‧vi‧sion

Noun

supervision (countable and uncountable, plural supervisions)

1. (uncountable) The act or instance of supervising.

   Under his parents' supervision he drilled the holes in the wood.

2. (uncountable) Responsible oversight.

   Do not attempt this without adequate supervision.

3. (countable, Cambridge University) A tutorial session for an individual student or a small group.

Related terms

• supervise

Translations

the act or instance of supervising

• Belarusian: на́гляд m (náhljad)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 監督／监督 (zh) (jiāndū), 管理 (zh) (guǎnlǐ), 監視／监视 (zh) (jiānshì)

• Czech: dohled (cs) m
• Dutch: supervisie (nl) f, toezicht (nl) n
• Finnish: valvonta (fi)
• French: supervision (fr) f, surveillance (fr) f
• Georgian: ზედამხედველობა (zedamxedveloba), მეთვალყურეობა (metvalq̇ureoba)
• German: Aufsicht (de) f, Beaufsichtigung f
• Greek: εποπτεία (el) f (epopteía), επίβλεψη (el) f (epívlepsi), επιστασία (el) f (epistasía)

  Ancient: ἔποψις f (épopsis)

• Hungarian: felügyelet (hu), ellenőrzés (hu), szupervízió
• Japanese: 監督 (ja) (かんとく, kantoku)
• Korean: 감독 (ko) (gamdok)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چاودێری (çawdêrî)

• Malayalam: മേൽനോട്ടം (ml) (mēlnōṭṭaṁ)
• Old English: nytt f
• Portuguese: supervisão (pt) m
• Romanian: supervizare (ro) f, supraveghere (ro) f
• Russian: надзо́р (ru) m (nadzór), надсмо́тр (ru) m (nadsmótr), заве́дование (ru) n (zavédovanije), контро́ль (ru) m (kontrólʹ), управле́ние (ru) n (upravlénije)
• Swedish: tillsyn (sv) c
• Telugu: పర్యవేక్షణ (te) (paryavēkṣaṇa)
• Turkish: gözetim (tr)
• Ukrainian: на́гляд m (náhljad)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pɛʁ.vi.zjɔ̃/

Noun

supervision f (plural supervisions)

1. supervision

Further reading

• “supervision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.