supervisory role

collocation in English

meaningsofsupervisoryandrole

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supervisory
adjective
uk
/ˌsuː.pəˈvaɪ.zər.i/us
/ˌsuː.pɚˈvaɪ.zɚ.i/
having or involving the job of watching a person or activity to make certain that everything is done correctly, ...
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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofsupervisoryandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some demonstrated multiple re-admissions of patients, reflecting asupervisoryroleof a proportion of their discharged patients in the community.
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Some heavily influenced local policy while others adopted only the broadestsupervisoryrole, with knock-on consequences for attitudes towards the settled and non-settled poor.
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Wives of karkhandars too sometimes assumed asupervisoryroleover women who did the work of winding.
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Perceptions surrounding asupervisoryrolefeature in life contributors' teacher-role identities.
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This paper provides an explanation for thesupervisoryroleof the central bank in a monetary general equilibrium model of bank liquidity provision.
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However, the agents performed asupervisoryrolein regard to servants and other estate employees, keeping accounts of both wages and conduct.
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There is a widespread belief that thesupervisoryroleof those authorities was not carried out properly.
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If not, the answer is probably that it should lose thatsupervisoryrole.
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Neither is it clear how these organisations would take on thissupervisoryrole, nor how it would be funded.
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We are now considering its generalsupervisoryroleover the industry, and for that purpose it cannot inquire into costs and production.
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That is the result of separating the safety role from thesupervisoryrole.
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Therefore, thesupervisoryroleof the directors is going by default.
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She talked about extending the role of guardians ad litem so that they play asupervisoryrolefor longer.
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I also understand that postgraduate deans will continue to have asupervisoryrolein the educational part of junior doctors' contracts.
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For example, there is no reason why the role of councillors should not be extended to the strategic andsupervisoryroleof district health authorities.
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Indeed, it may well be that local authorities might be involved in somesupervisoryrole, as indeed they are in other aspects.
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Thesupervisoryroleis crucial to the police, as in most other enterprises, and it must be given adequate training support.
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I ask: would this new minister have a co-ordinating orsupervisoryrole, or would he have a new department?
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However, he has asupervisoryrole, particularly to instruct counsel in the odd cases where the interests of the child should be represented by counsel.
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I am not clear whether the implementation teams will also have asupervisoryrole, especially after the initial phase.
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