supervisor

English

Alternative forms

• supervisour (obsolete)

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century CE; from Latin supervisor, from supervideō, in turn from Latin super + Latin videō.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: so͞op′ərvīz'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈsuːpɚˌvaɪzɚ/

Noun

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.

Related terms

• supervise
• supervision
• supervisory

Translations

a person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group etc.

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 監督者 (zh), 监督者 (zh) (jiāndūzhě), 管理者 (guǎnlǐzhě), 主管 (zh) (zhǔguǎn)

• Dutch: toezichthouder (nl) m, leidinggevende (nl)
• Finnish: valvoja (fi), tarkastaja (fi)
• French: superviseur (fr) m
• Georgian: უფროსი (uprosi), ხელმძღვანელი (xelmʒɣvaneli), მენეჯერი (meneǯeri), ზედამხედველი (zedamxedveli), ინსპექტორი (insṗekṭori), კონტროლერი (ḳonṭroleri)
• German: Aufseher (de), Vorgesetzter (de) m
• Greek: επιστάτης (el) m (epistátis)
• Irish: maor m
• Italian: supervisore
• Japanese: 主管 (ja) (しゅかん, shukan), スーパーバイザー (sūpābaizā)
• Khmer: មេការ (mee kaa)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چاودێر‎‎ (ku) (çawdér)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppsynsmann m

  Nynorsk: oppsynsmann m

• Polish: naczelnik (pl) m, nadzorca (pl) m
• Portuguese: supervisor (pt) m
• Russian: нача́льник (ru) m (načálʹnik), руководи́тель (ru) m (rukovodítelʹ), (negative connotation) надсмо́трщик (ru) m (nadsmótrščik), (negative connotation) надзира́тель (ru) m (nadzirátelʹ), (manufacturing, construction) ма́стер (ru) m (máster), суперва́йзер (ru) m (supervájzɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: супервизор m, надзорник m, надгледник m, надређени m

  Roman: supervizor (sh) m, nadzornik (sh) m, nadglednik (sh) m, nadređeni (sh) m

• Spanish: supervisor (es) m, director (es) m
• Tagalog: tagamasid

See also

• manager
• on-call supervisor.
• superintendent

References

• “supervisor” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Anagrams

• proviruses

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Portuguese

Etymology

super- +‎ visor

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /supɛɾviˈzoɾ/

Noun

supervisor m (plural supervisores)

1. (management) supervisor

See also

• gerente
• administrador
• capataz
• chefe
• controlador
• feitor
• organizador
• superintendente

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Spanish

Noun

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

1. supervisor

Related terms

• supervisar
• supervisión