Oversee
[əʊvə'siː] or ['ovɚ'si]
Definition
(v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
(v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.
(v. i.) To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.
Typist: Shane
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Superintend, supervise, overlook, inspect, boss, have charge of, have the direction of.
Checker: Mario
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Superintend, supervise,[See OVERLOOK]
Checker: Sigmund
Definition
v.t. to see or look over to superintend.—n. Oversē′er one who oversees: a superintendent: an officer who has the care of the poor and other duties such as making out lists of voters of persons who have not paid rates &c.: one who manages a plantation of slaves: (obs.) a critic.—Overseers of the poor officers in England who manage the poor-rate.—Be overseen (obs.) to be deceived: to be fuddled.
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Examples
- He used to oversee my place on the lake, and did it capitally, too. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I don't keep none o' yer cussed overseers; I does my own overseeing; and I tell you things _is_ seen to. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He still continues to ply his craft with unabated skill and oversees the work of the mechanics as his productions are wrought into concrete shape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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