Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To watch over and direct; supervise. See Synonyms at supervise.
- v. To subject to scrutiny; examine or inspect.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To look over; superintend; overlook; take care of; look out for.
- To revise.
- To pass unheeded; omit; neglect; overlook.
- To be tipsy; be intoxicated.
- To omit or neglect to see; overlook.
Wiktionary
- v. literally To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
- v. figuratively To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
- v. To inspect, examine
- v. obsolete To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
- v. To observe secretly or unintentionally.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook{2}.
- v. archaic To omit or neglect seeing; to overlook{5}.
- v. To see unintentionally or unexpectedly; -- the visual analogy to overhear.
- v. obsolete To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.
WordNet 3.0
- v. watch and direct
Etymologies
- over- + see (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This caseworker had about 100 cases to oversee, which is four times the recommended number.”
“And earlier in the week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that Biden would "oversee" Iraq policy and work with both the U.S. military and U.S.”
“The "Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission" cannot succeed because the Secretary of the Treasury and the heads of the congressional committees that "oversee" the financial services industry don't want it to succeed.”
Joseph A. Palermo: Defiant Wall Street Welfare Kings Come to Washington
“So, they want to go back, the Obama team wants to go back, maybe put up -- set up a team inside Treasury to kind of oversee, provide some accountability.”
“The state's Republican governor -- Sen. John McCain's number one Sunshine State buddy Charlie Crist -- said he would "oversee" a mail-in re-vote for Florida's more than five million Democrats.”
Ron Levitt: Florida Republicans Weigh In On Democratic Primary Do-over
“Then Congress responds by passing a law legalizing such break-ins, but with new committees to "oversee" the crimes in the future.”
“Spin and hype and what's the odds that yet another bloody unelected quango gets set up to "oversee" the 70 million budget.”
“They were in the region particularly to kind of oversee and monitor the developments involving Pakistan and its elections.”
“Yeah, I guess it would be a little gauche to try to "oversee" recovery efforts from the "ranch" while on vacation.”
“South Africa and Nigeria - two of three countries assigned to "oversee" Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth - are ready to allow the country back into the organization.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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It's Over: A Beginning
Terms that start with the string over-, beginning with overanxious.
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mimic, blizzard, sleet, urge, oversee, fool, demonstrate, seek, breeze, gale, hurricane, droughts and 3 more...
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Verses
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a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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cleave, dust, left, fast, clip, custom, handicap, lease, rent, strike, quantum, overlook and 3 more...
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