superintend

English

Etymology

From Latin superintendere

Verb

superintend (third-person singular simple present superintends, present participle superintending, simple past and past participle superintended)

1. To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
2. To administer the affairs of something or someone.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops

     A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.

Related terms

• superintendence

Translations

Translations

• French: surveiller (fr), diriger (fr)

• German: aufsehen (de)