Oversight vs Scrutiny - What's the difference?
oversight | scrutiny |
An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
Supervision or management.
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, title= Intense study of someone or something.
* Milton
Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
(obsolete, rare) To scrutinize.
As nouns the difference between oversight and scrutiny
is that oversight is an omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten while scrutiny is intense study of someone or something.As a verb scrutiny is
to scrutinize.oversight
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
scrutiny
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Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(scrutinies)- Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view / And narrower scrutiny .
