supervise

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To oversee or direct a task or organization.

   Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.

2. 2
   verb

   To look over so as to read; to peruse.

   Let me supervise the canzonet.

3. 3
   verb

   keep tabs on

4. 4
   verb

   watch and direct

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doublet of survey.