0 a person whose job it is to make certain that employees are working or that an activity is being done correctly --
1 a person whose job it is to make certain that employees are working or that an activity is being done correctly: --
As the nation's regulatory overseer, he could advance, delay, or cancel major initiatives.
The main tasks of the overseers were the enumeration and relief of the poor.
Older men and women were treated differently by overseers of the poor.
These overseers often treated the cooperatives as mere extensions of the parastatals.
What good was an education in theology or medicine for the factory overseer or the tax official?
Other paupers also actively sought testimony to the validity of the claims that they were making from the overseers of their current parish of residence.
Reconstruction of how the sums raised were spent is much more difficult, especially for the period before overseers account books survive (from 1771).
He was accountant to the overseers and highway surveyors, and clerk to the local friendly society.
Many media outlets have editors who specialize in deciding what will fly with the political overseers.
