overseer

英 [ˈəʊvəsɪə(r)]

美 [ˈoʊvərsɪr]

n.  监工; 工头; (某体系的)监督者，监督机构，督察

复数：overseers　

经济

BNC.16167 / COCA.15868

牛津词典

noun

• 监工；工头
  a person whose job is to make sure that other workers do their work
• （某体系的）监督者，监督机构，督察
  a person or an organization that is responsible for making sure that a system is working as it should

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 监工；工头
  Anoverseeris someone whose job is to make sure that employees are working properly.
  1. I was put in the tailor shop, and I loved it. I was promoted to overseer.
     我被安排到缝纫车间，结果我很喜欢这项工作，后来还晋升为工头。
• N-COUNT （某一体系、活动等的）监督人，监管人，负责人
  If a person or organization is theoverseerof a particular system or activity, they are responsible for making sure that the system or activity works properly and is successful.
  1. ...the department's dual role as overseer of oil production and safety.
     该部门作为监管石油生产与安全的机构的双重身份

英英释义

noun

• a person who directs and manages an organization
  Synonym:superintendent

双语例句

• But what was Big Sam doing here, so far away from home, especially now that there was no overseer on the plantation and he was gerald's right-hand man?
  可是大个儿萨姆到这里来干什么呢？离家这么远，尤其现在无人照管农场的时候，而他又是杰拉尔德的得力助手？
• Under observation or under the direction of a superintendent or overseer.
  在观察、主管或监督人的指挥之下。
• The two of them, with their Yankee stepmother, their four little half-sisters, and Hilton, the Yankee overseer, remained in the silent, oddly echoing house.
  他们兄妹二人，以及他们的北方佬继母和四个异母的小妹妹，还有那位北方佬监工希尔顿一起住在这幢寂静而又常常发出古怪回响的旧房子里。
• As an overseer, he suddenly found himself a person of consequence
  作为工头，他突然觉得自己是个重要人物。
• Overseer, but she'll be along for the ball tonight.
  她要和工头结帐。不过她会来参加今晚的舞会的。
• The modern president must therefore not be the overseer of aggregate demand but the conductor of deep-seated structural changes.
  因此，总统不能做总需求的管理人，而要做深层次结构变革的总指挥。
• For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
  你们从前好像迷路的羊。如今却归到你们灵魂的牧人监督了。
• Now that the four boys were gone, the house burned and the family cramped in the overseer's cottage, she could not bring herself to go.
  既然那四个小伙子都不在了，房子也给烧毁了，一家人挤在监工的小屋里，她还有什么兴致去看呢。
• "I can't imagine that he was a very satisfactory overseer," I said, smiling.
  “我想他不是一个令人满意的监工。”我笑着说。
• WILKENSON: You haven't forgotten your old overseer, have you?
  威尔金森（下称威）：你没忘掉我这个老监工吧？现在艾米是威尔金森太太了。