supervisor

• supervisour (obsolete)

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

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

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.

• supervise
• supervision
• supervisory

• manager
• on-call supervisor
• superintendent

• “supervisor” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• proviruses

supervisor m (plural supervisors, feminine supervisora)

1. supervisor

• supervisar
• supervisió

• “supervisor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “supervisor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “supervisor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

super- +‎ visor

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /supɛɾviˈzoɾ/

supervisor m (plural supervisores)

1. (management) supervisor

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

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

1. supervisor

• supervisar
• supervisión

• “supervisor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.