When you oversee the preparation of dinner, you take control and manage the operation closely. But if you overlook the preparation of dinner you forget to prepare the meal entirely—better order pizza.

Adding to the confusion: “oversight” is what you do when you take control (“he assumed oversight of meal preparation”) and also what you neglect to do (“forgetting to add the butter was a serious oversight”).

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