OVERSEE

oversee, supervise, superintend, manage

(verb) watch and direct; “Who is overseeing this project?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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

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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

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