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Oversee   /ˈoʊvərsˌi/   Listen
verb
Oversee  v. t.  (past oversaw; past part. overseen; pres. part. overseeing)  
1.
To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook (2).
2.
To omit or neglect seeing; to overlook (5). (archaic)
3.
To see unintentionally or unexpectedly; the visual analogy to overhear.


Oversee  v. i.  (past oversaw; past part. overseen; pres. part. overseeing)  To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. (Obs.) "The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee." "Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Oversee" Quotes from Famous Books



... providence, so as to "have understanding of the times, and know what Israel ought to do." (1 Chron. xii. 32.) They are to "try the spirits whether they are of God;" and "after the first and second admonition, to reject heretics." (Tit. iii. 10.) They are to "oversee the flock," (Acts xx. 28;) and to "watch for souls, as they that must give account" to the Master. (Heb. xiii. 17.) And we may say with Paul,—"Who is sufficient for these things?" Modern prelates, ...
— Notes On The Apocalypse • David Steele
... thought 'At the Good Bein' up above Would think more of us—as he ought— A-stayin' home on sich a day And thankin' of him thataway. And jawed on in an undertone, 'Bout leavin' Lide and Jane alone There on the place, and me not there To oversee 'em, and p'pare The stuffin' for the turkey, and The sass ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow--Book 3 - Christmas Poems from 'round the World • Various
... is frequently the interference with his proper work by the library authorities. Committees or trustees to oversee the management and supervise expenditures are necessary to any public library. Sometimes they are quick-sighted and intelligent persons, and recognize the importance of letting the librarian work out everything in ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford
... between hedge-row,—I who have ridden the desert where the sky over me and the plain under me were bigger than the Islander's universe! They wanted me to oversee little farms—I who have watched the sun rising over half a world! Talk of your ten thou' a year and what it'll buy! You know, Harry, how it feels when a steer takes the slack of your rope, and your pony sits back! Where in England can I buy that? You know the rising and the falling ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... the Force was a tribute to the extraordinary efficiency of its members in establishing peace and order throughout a vast domain. But it is not fair or human "to ride a willing horse to death," and with increased population and widening areas to oversee, the strain being put upon the men in the corps was too great. In even the organized portions of the Territories there was only an average of one constable to every 500 square miles. It was highly important that with half the population foreign born, alien to our laws, unacquainted with our institutions ...
— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth


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