how to pronounce overseer

/ˈəʊ.vəˌsiː.əɹ/

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overseer is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of overseer in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… ranch overseer layali was he the …”

meanings of overseer

noun:

One who oversees or supervises.
An officer responsible for the care of the poor, making out lists of voters and those who had not paid taxes, etc.
The manager of a plantation of slaves.
A critic.

overseer frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word overseer occurs in english on average 0.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics overseer can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that overseer can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;