Definition of "oversee"

oversee

/əʊvə(ɹ)siː/

verb
third-person singular simple present oversees, present participle overseeing, simple past oversaw, past participle overseen
1. (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
2. (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
  Quotations
  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.
  2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, page 50
3. To inspect, examine
4. (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
  Quotations
  Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
5. To observe secretly or unintentionally.

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