Oversight (meaning #1)
an oversight (noun) - an error or mistake (forgetting to do what you were supposed to do or failing to notice something that you should have noticed)
[Note: "Oversight" has two related meanings that can be easily confused. In addition to the above meaning of "error", "oversight" can also mean "oversee" which means "monitoring and directing a project or activity." An example of a sentence which uses both meanings: "The oversight committee made an oversight" which means "the group overseeing the project made a mistake"]
Example sentences:
* Due to an oversight the company forgot to send out the refund checks.
* Through an oversight a notorious criminal was hired for the job.
* The omission was the result of a purely technical oversight.
* What initially appeared to be an oversight, in the end turned out to be a virtue and a fortuitous bit of good luck.
* That's quite an oversight!
* The spokesperson announced that the service interruption had been caused by an oversight.
* Due to an oversight the bill has still not been paid.
* By an unfortunate oversight Alfred missed his plain and won't be able to give his speech at the dinner tonight.
* Although initially going undetected, the oversight revealed itself over the next few months in subtle and unexpected ways that harmed the firm.
* It was simply an oversight on our part that your wife was not invited too.
* The omission in the job offer letter was due to an unfortunate oversight by his wife's secretary.
* Claiming that he was guilty of only an oversight made him even more guilty in the eyes of the judges.
* There will always be just plain human ignorance or oversight about some detail that leads to disaster.
* "We must quickly find and punish those responsible for this oversight," yelled the despotic CEO.
* This was merely a regulatory oversight and won't happen again.
* This incorrect recording of business expenses in the accounts is a glaring oversight that the auditors will surely find.
* The network crash was purely a technical oversight. No hackers were at work in the incident.
* Her name was left out of the invitation list for the wedding by an oversight.
* The research project is awaiting approval from an academic oversight committee before it begins the clinical trials of the new drug.
