Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oversighter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-sighter
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person having oversight; an overseer or supervisor.

noun

A user with special wiki privileges allowing them to hide deleted data from the publicly viewable logs.

Example Sentences

"But there was nothing wrong about that because it fell within UN travel guidelines. Suspicious, yes; wrong, no, the “oversighters” said. Meanwhile, cryptic comments abound in the investigators' report, such as, “It is beyond the purview of this report to inquire into the vagaries of airline fares.”"
"Oversighters are allowed to hide revisions, user names, and other entries in an article's record of revisions (its log) so that only other oversighters and stewards can see them (called “suppression”)."

Etymology

From oversight + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: oversight

Inflected Forms

oversighters (plural)

Questions

What does oversighter mean?: A person having oversight; an overseer or supervisor.
Where does oversighter come from?: From oversight + -er.

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