OVERSEE
oversee, supervise, superintend, manage
(verb) watch and direct; “Who is overseeing this project?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
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.
Synonym: superintend
To inspect, examine
(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
To observe secretly or unintentionally.
Anagrams
• see over
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*see", v. t. [imp. Oversaw; p. p. Overseen; p. pr. & vb. n.
Overseeing.] Etym: [AS. oferséon to survey, to despise. See Over, and
See.]
1. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to
overlook.
2. To omit or neglect seeing. Spenser.
O`ver*see", v. i.
Definition: To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [Obs.]
The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. Fuller.
Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to
correct your Latin. Walpole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition