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oversee

verboattestato nei dialoghi

  • Regno Unito//ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː//
  • Regno Unito/[ˌəʊ̯.vəˈsiː]/
  • Canada//ˌoʊ.vɚˈsi//
  • Canada/[ˌoʊ̯.vɚˈsi]/
  • Australia//ˌəʉ.vəˈsiː//

To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

verbo

  1. 1

    To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

  2. 2

    figuratoTo 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

    obsoletoTo 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.

Etimologia

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

Forme

passato
oversaw
participio passato
overseen
participio presente
overseeing
3ª persona singolare
oversees
Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

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