supervisor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
supervisor (plural supervisors)
- (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- (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.
- 1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide (page 14)
- French: superviseur
- German: Aufseher, Vorgesetzter
- Italian: supervisore
- Portuguese: supervisor
- Russian: нача́льник
- Spanish: supervisor, director
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