oversee

verb

1. 1

   To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

2. 2

   figurativeTo 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.

   Treasury could also ask why High Speed 2's finances are so adrift from what was promised. The answers will make for difficult DfT reading, because it can't escape the fact that it has been the government department overseeing rail spending for the past 20 years.

3. 3

   To inspect, examine.

   Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.

4. 4

   obsoleteTo 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.

5. 5

   To observe secretly or unintentionally.

Forms

past tense

oversaw

past participle

overseen

present participle

overseeing

third person singular

oversees