Definition of oversee

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Oversee (v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

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Overseer :: Overseer (n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways..
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs..
Oversman :: Oversman (n.) An overseer; a superintendent.
Superintendence :: Superintend (v. t.) To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort..
Greeve :: Greeve (n.) See Grieve, an overseer..
Surveillant :: Surveillant (n.) One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.
Superintendent :: Superintendent (a.) Overseeing; superintending.
Bishop :: Bishop (n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director..
Overseeing :: Overseeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overse.
Gaffer :: Gaffer (n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.
Shopwalker :: Shopwalker (n.) One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
Supervisive :: Supervision (n.) The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.
Supervise :: Supervise (v. t.) To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book..
Taskmaster :: Taskmaster (n.) One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer..
Bishopric :: Bishopric (n.) The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter..
Floorwalker :: Floorwalker (n.) One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
Overseen :: Overseen (p. p.) of Overse.
Oversee :: Oversee (v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.
Foreman :: Foreman (n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer..
Oversee :: Oversee (v. i.) To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived..
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