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The word “oversight,” in this podcast, is a noun that means to supervise or manage something: “The reason we’re over budget is because there wasn’t enough oversight on how the money should be spent.” “Oversight” can also mean to forget to do something because you weren’t paying attention: “It was an oversight that he was the only who wasn’t invited to the event.” Or, “Because of an oversight, the work on this car has to stop while we wait for the parts to be ordered.” 3 these materials on another website or distributing them in any way is prohibited. English as a Second Language Podcast www.eslpod.com ESL Podcast 188 – Correcting Misunderstandings at Work to free up In this podcast, the phrase “to free up” means to no longer have responsibility for something, often related to having more time for something else: “Do you think you can free up a few days to go with me on vacation?” You will also hear another phrase, “to be free of (something)” that means something very different. “To be free of (something)” means to get away from the responsibility or power of something or someone else, usually something bad or unpleasant: “I’m so glad to be free of that job so I don’t have to work long hours for low pay.” Or, “Gina got a divorce from her husband and is free of a bad relationship.”
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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 188, “Correcting Misunderstandings at Work.”
This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 188. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, in the wonderful state of California.
On this podcast, we're going to be correcting some mistakes that other people make. When you have a conversation and you need to tell someone they made a mistake or they are wrong, you need to do that politely, and today we'll find out how. Let's get started.
I work in our company’s Toledo office and I was meeting with my counterpart in our Raleigh office. I was trying to explain to her our new proposal to make some changes in the corporate structure. But, it wasn’t going very well.
Rory: So, with the new plan, the managers would report directly to the CEO?
Dean: That’s not quite right. The local managers would report to the regional managers, and the regional managers would be supervised by the COO. That would give the COO more oversight than he has now.
Rory: You’re saying, then, that the managers aren’t being well supervised now?
Dean: No, that’s not what I meant. We were actually thinking that the new plan would
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