Overman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person having authority over others, especially an overseer or a shift supervisor.
  • n. See superman.
  • v. To provide with more personnel than necessary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who supervises others; a supervisor
  • n. A person with great powers; a superman
  • v. to provide with too many personnel
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One in authority over others; a chief; usually, an overseer or boss.
  • n. An arbiter.
  • n. In the philosophy of Nietzsche, a man of superior physique and powers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In coal-mining, the person having charge of the work below ground.
  • To employ too many men on or in, as on a ship.
  • n. In general, an overseer, or foreman.
  • n. An arbitrator, or umpire.
  • n. In the writings of F. W. Nietzsche, a type with more or less superhuman qualities toward which he supposed mankind to be developing.
  • Word Usage
    "The father was faithful and grateful: the son knows no law but his own humor; detests the ugly dwarf who has nursed him; chafes furiously under his claims for some return for his tender care; and is, in short, a totally unmoral person, a born anarchist, the ideal of Bakoonin, an anticipation of the "overman" of"
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    chief    arbiter