Meaning & use
supervised person
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Meanings
nouncountableformallaw
Someone who is watched over by an official, a professional, or another adult to make sure they behave properly or stay safe.
Grammar: Countable: use 'a supervised person' or 'supervised people' for more than one.
Patterns
- a supervised person in custody
- supervised persons on probation
- keep a supervised person under watch
The officer must check on each supervised person once a week.
Under the new rules, a supervised person cannot leave the county without permission.
Social workers record every visit they make to a supervised person.
nouncountablemedicallaw
A patient or client who must stay under the care or control of a named professional, such as a doctor or probation officer.
Grammar: Often appears in official documents and forms rather than in everyday speech.
Patterns
- a supervised person under a doctor's care
- release a supervised person
- a supervised person's file
The clinic keeps a separate list of supervised persons receiving daily treatment.
A supervised person may be allowed home visits after six months.
The report described him as a supervised person who posed no danger to the public.
Word forms
| plural | supervised persons |
|---|---|
| plural | supervised people |
Common combinations
- a supervised person in the community
- The court returned him to the community as a supervised person.
- designated supervised person
- Each unit has a designated supervised person who signs the log at night.
- supervised person status
- Her supervised person status ends when the probation period is over.
- treat someone as a supervised person
- The hospital will treat him as a supervised person until his test results come back.
Synonyms and how they differ
- ward
- A ward is a young person or patient legally placed in someone's care; it is more specific and mostly used for children or guardianship cases.
- charge
- A charge is a person in the care of a guardian or court, but the word is old-fashioned and rare outside legal history.
- supervisee
- Supervisee means anyone being supervised, often at work or in study, and is not limited to official or medical settings.
Word family
- supervise verb
- to watch over someone and make sure they do things correctly
- supervision noun
- the act of watching over people or work
- supervisor noun
- a person whose job is to watch over workers or students
- supervisory adjective
- relating to the job of watching over others
- unsupervised adjective
- not watched over by anyone
Commonly confused: supervised person or supervisory? supervised person or supervisee?
supervised person vs supervisory
Supervisory is an adjective describing a role or job, while supervised describes the person who is being watched.
supervised person vs supervisee
A supervisee is anyone under supervision, especially at work; a supervised person usually means someone under official, legal, or medical control.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'supervised person' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'A supervised person' is the one being watched, so the person under a probation officer fits. Option A reverses the roles, C uses the noun where the verb 'supervised' is needed, and D is nonsense because buildings are not supervised persons.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “supervised person”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.