supervisor

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century C.E.; from Middle English supervisor, supervisour, supervysor, supervysour, from Latin supervīsor, from supervideō, in turn from super + videō.

noun

1. (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
2. A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
3. (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
4. (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
   The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms. 1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14