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overseers

NOUN
person who supervises others' work
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If banks lent out the funds anyway, they would be subject to costly demerits from their overseers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The comedian, who returned to host Monday nights in early 2024 after nearly a decade away, acknowledged recent tensions with the network’s new corporate overseers.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

Affordable housing grantmakers, lenders and urban planning regulators share agency letterhead with cannabis and alcohol industry overseers, professional licensors, car mechanic watchdogs and everyone at the California Horse Racing Board.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2025

Because The Truth has no official leader, the BBC instead contacted six of its most senior current officials - known as "overseers" - for comment.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

That was true, but only half true, since the power of the overseers was a result of the curious lives led by the sugar masters.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson