Usually means: Manager responsible for supervising others.
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  1. overseer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overseer: Merriam-Webster
  3. overseer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overseer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overseer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overseer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overseer, overseer: Wordnik
  8. overseer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overseer: Wiktionary
  10. overseer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overseer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overseer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overseer, overseer: Dictionary.com
  14. Overseer (rank), Overseer, The Overseer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Overseer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. overseer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. overseer: Rhymezone
  18. Overseer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. overseer: FreeDictionary.org
  20. overseer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. overseer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. overseer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. overseer: Legal dictionary

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  1. overseer: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who oversees or supervises.
noun:  (historical) The manager of a plantation of slaves.
noun:  (historical) An officer responsible for the care of the poor, making out lists of voters and those who had not paid taxes, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) A critic.

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