oversee
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oversee (third-person singular simple present oversees, present participle overseeing, simple past oversaw, past participle overseen) (transitive)
- (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
- (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
- It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
- To inspect, examine
- Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
- (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:
- Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:
- To observe secretly or unintentionally.
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to survey, look at something in a wide angle
to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group
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to inspect, examine
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