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What does oversee mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word oversee? Here's what it means.

Verb
  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.
  3. To inspect, examine
  4. (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
  5. To observe secretly or unintentionally.
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He will also oversee the opening of another four shops before the end of the year.
Eighty-eight Congressional committees and subcommittees oversee the components of the new department, and the turf wars will be fierce.
In most cases, a censor and a chiliarch or centurion from the Imperial Guard were ordered to jointly oversee campaigns to apprehend brigands.
There was no health and safety plan in place or a supervisor appointed to oversee the works.
He has agreed to oversee guest activities outdoors, but he knows he is no businessman.
Another recommendation calls for the creation of a new system-level office under the chancellor to oversee programs targeted at the problem.

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