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Supervisor vs Ringleader - What's the difference?

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Supervisor is a related term of ringleader.


As nouns the difference between supervisor and ringleader

is that supervisor is (management) a person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group while ringleader is a leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group.

supervisor

English

Alternative forms

* supervisour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group.
  • A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
  • (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.

    • Related terms

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    See also

    * manager * on-call supervisor. * superintendent

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    Anagrams

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    ringleader

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group
  • a person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang
  • * The police arrested the ringleaders of the smuggling operation.
  • * (1590): William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 : A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent, / Under the countenance and confederacy / Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife, / The ringleader and head of all this rout, / Have practis'd dangerously against your state...