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Supervise   /sˈupərvˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Supervise  v. t.  (past & past part. supervised; pres. part. supervising)  
1.
To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.
2.
To look over so as to read; to peruse. (Obs.)
Synonyms: See Superintend.


noun
Supervise  n.  Supervision; inspection. (Obs.)





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"Supervise" Quotes from Famous Books



... political bosses, but more important than all this, he was the representative of the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad in that section of Tulare County. The railroad did little business in that part of the country that S. Behrman did not supervise, from the consignment of a shipment of wheat to the management of a damage suit, or even to the repair and maintenance of the right of way. During the time when the ranchers of the county were fighting ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris
... possible at present, to specify the usual age of retirement for gymnastic teachers, but when a woman becomes too old for regular school teaching she can organise, supervise, and inspect, or continue to practise remedial work ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley
... is physically impossible for a county superintendent to visit and supervise one hundred and fifty teachers at work in as many different schools scattered over four or five hundred square miles of territory. If he were to devote all his time to visiting country schools, he would have only one day to each school per year. When it is remembered that the ...
— New Ideals in Rural Schools • George Herbert Betts
... those inevitable laws of trade by which it was itself affected equally with them; and at least on one occasion, at an early day, it was saved only by extraordinary exertions from the same fate that attended the weakest institution it professed to supervise. In 1837 it failed equally with others in redeeming its notes (though the two years allowed by its charter for that purpose had not expired), a large amount of which remains to the present time outstanding. It is true ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... the formation of a cultivated and permanent taste for good reading is generally a matter of lifelong education. It must be begun when the child reads his first book. An encouraging sign for the future is the care that is now taken in all good libraries to supervise the reading of children and to provide for them special quarters and facilities. A somewhat disheartening circumstance, on the other hand, is the multiplication of annotated and abbreviated children's editions of all sorts of works that were read by the last generation of ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick


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