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supervisor

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Meaning

One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.

A spectator; a looker-on.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in. Ed Gillespie

Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics. Willard Boyle

Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade. Bob Black

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. Lee Iacocca

I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps. Shelley Hennig

As president of the Board of Supervisors, it's my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White. Dianne Feinstein

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