oversee

Meaning

  1. To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
  2. To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
  3. To inspect, examine
  4. (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
  5. To observe secretly or unintentionally.

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
over‧see
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/
Etymology

From Middle English overseen, ouverseen, from Old English ofersēon (“to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”), equivalent to over- + see.

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