- An oversight is something that someone does by mistake, without seeing that they are doing it.
- He didn't thank me, but I'm sure that was just an oversight.
- Oversight is the action of watching and making sure people do things right.
- We have many ordinary workers, and a manager for oversight.
- On Wikipedia, oversight is deleting pages or parts of pages so that not even administrators can see the part that was deleted.
- I put my email address on Wikipedia by mistake, but I asked for oversight so that no one would see it.
