oversee

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   watch and direct

   Who is overseeing this project?

2. 2
   verb

   To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.

   It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.

3. 3
   verb

   To inspect, examine.

   Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.

4. 4
   verb

   To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.

   Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.

5. 5
   verb

   To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

6. 6
   verb

   To observe secretly or unintentionally.

Etymology

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