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oversight

 noun
     
o‧ver‧sight [uncountable and countable]
1 a mistake in which you forget something or do not notice something:
I assure you that this was purely an oversight on my part.
2

have oversight of something

to be in charge of something:
He has general oversight of all training courses.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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