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Oversight vs Oversize - What's the difference?

oversight | oversize |

As a noun oversight

is an omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.

As an adjective oversize is

larger than normal.

As a verb oversize is

to surpass in size.

oversight

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
  • Supervision or management.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}

    oversize

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Larger than normal
  • Excessively large

    • Verb

    (oversiz)
  • To surpass in size.
    • (Webster 1913)