HOW TO PRONOUNCE
oversee
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsi/
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What does oversee mean?
verb
- To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
- (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
- To inspect, examine.
More meanings (2)
verb
- To observe secretly or unintentionally.
- (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
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IPA pronunciation
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Each member of the family had his especial duty to perform, his particular bundles to oversee.
These policemen must also oversee the hunt, lest some individuals should be well provided with food while others were in want.
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Faithful pastors recognize many errors and offenses in the church, which they oversee.
“She does plenty of unofficial preaching as it is. Nobody has much of a chance to go wrong in Avonlea with Rachel to oversee them.”
At which the king being pleased, and desiring him to oversee the work, erected a large and stately city, which was called after his own name, and made metropolis of Armenia.