Citations:snoopervision

Noun: "oversight deemed to be excessively invasive or prying"

 * 1927 — The Lutheran Quarterly, page 242:
 * We are satisfied that supervision (not "snoopervision") is an essential in every well regulated school.
 * 1938 — Floyd Tompkins Goodier, Administration of Town and Village Schools, Webster Publishing Co. (1938), page 91:
 * Some of the supervision of the past has been rightfully called "snoopervision" because it had as its chief concern the activities of the teachers.
 * 1945 — William B. Levenson, Teaching Through Radio, Farrar & Rinehart (1945), page 252:
 * To mistake this form of "snoopervision" as having any values in supervision is foolish.
 * 1945 — Ferdinand Theodore Struck, Vocational Education for a Changing World, John Wiley & Sons (1945), page 120:
 * He understands the difference between supervision as a creative, constructive art and "snoopervision."
 * 1955 — Evelyn Millis Duvall, Family Living, Macmillan (1955), page 135:
 * It should be clear that adult availability does not mean interference or "snoopervision," since youth should be encouraged to be responsible for their own affairs.
 * 1967 — Canadian Poultry Review, Volume 92, page 46:
 * He added: "I hear that you are flirting with inviting government controls. I am concerned about Federal 'snoopervision' of agriculture."
 * 1975 — N. F. Iannone, Supervision of Police Personnel, Prentice-Hall (1975), ISBN 9780138770013, page 43-44:
 * Oversupervision, often called "snoopervision," causes loss of respect for the supervisor, creates suspicions in the minds of employees, fosters rumors, and arouses resentment.
 * 1976 — Jan S. Gerstner, Flying, February 1976, page 8, letter:
 * Parke is quick to admit that Flying cannot guarantee us that Government snoopervision won't do us dirty, and the track record of the Government is that, given a chance, it will do just that.
 * 1997 — David R. Austin, Therapeutic Recreation: Processes and Techniques, Sagamore Publishing (1997), ISBN 9781571670328, page 363:
 * Some refer to this type of supervision, where the supervisor sneaks around in order to snoop on staff, as "snoopervision."
 * 2011 — Madison Bennett, "Kinnick to get more security cameras", The Daily Iowan, 13 May 2011:
 * Though it's a fine line between supervision and what Stephens calls "snoopervision," he said, surveillance is often appropriate, especially in sports facilities.