0 having or involving the job of watching a person or activity to make certain that everything is done correctly, safely, etc.:
1 relating to the work of making sure that workers and companies are obeying rules, doing their work correctly and safely, etc.:
Members of the public are angry about the supervisory and regulatory failings that allowed the financial crisis to develop.
supervisory capacity/role/position He will not be allowed to act in any supervisory capacity for three years.
supervisory authority/agency The bank will cooperate fully with the banking supervisory authorities in order to clarify the matter.
supervisory procedures/policies/powers
More important, he applied for a new job - a supervisory job - and got it.
The chancellor remains convinced that personnel decisions are exclusively the responsibility of the supervisory board.
a retired FBI supervisory agent who specialized in counterterrorism, counterintelligence and espionage
A higher proportion of staff will have trainee status and extra staff will be needed for the supervisory role.
He had no supervisory responsibility over athletics before then.
Some demonstrated multiple re-admissions of patients, reflecting a supervisory role of a proportion of their discharged patients in the community.
However, an arrangement that optimally delegates the monitoring role does exist and it resembles the special supervisory roles associated with central banking.
Under the drive system, the entrepreneur gave the foreman the supervisory activities previously undertaken by craft workers, in order to improve production and labour productivity.
