overseer
noun/ˈəʊvəˌsiːə(ɹ)/
Etymology From oversee + -er.
› One who oversees or supervises.
1
Historical The manager of a plantation of slaves.
- It is often deemed advisable to knock a man slave down, in order to tie him, but it is considered cowardly and inexcusable, in an overseer, thus to deal with a woman.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
2
Historical An officer responsible for the care of the poor, making out lists of voters and those who had not paid taxes, etc.
3
Obsolete A critic.
4
Obsolete A bishop.
Tyndale Bible; also puristic; Tyndale Bible; also puristic
- Synonyms
- administrator, chief, comptroller, controller, curator, foreman, head, head man, organizer, superintendent, supervisor
- Derived terms
- overseeress, overseerism, overseership, suboverseer