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oversee

verbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː//
  • Royaume-Uni/[ˌəʊ̯.vəˈsiː]/
  • Canada//ˌoʊ.vɚˈsi//
  • Canada/[ˌoʊ̯.vɚˈsi]/
  • Australie//ˌəʉ.vəˈsiː//

To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

verbe

  1. 1

    To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

  2. 2

    figuréTo 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

    obsolèteTo 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.

Étymologie

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

Formes

passé
oversaw
participe passé
overseen
participe présent
overseeing
3ᵉ personne du singulier
oversees
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).