oversee
Meanings
verb
- To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
- To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
- To inspect, examine.
- To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
- To observe secretly or unintentionally.
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Etymology
From Middle English overseen, ouverseen, from Old English ofersēon (“to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”), equivalent to over- + see.
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