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oversee

verb
/ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/UK/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsi/CA/ˌəʉ.vəˈsiː/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from ofersēon — “to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”
  2. inherited from overseen

Definitions

  1. To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

  2. 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.
    • And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.
    • Based at BTP's London headquarters, Russell's team of three full-timers in the drone unit are responsible for overseeing the safety of drones in support of police officers.

  3. To inspect, examine.

    • Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To fail to see

      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.

    2. To observe secretly or unintentionally.

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Derived

overseer, oversight

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at oversee. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at oversee. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at oversee

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA