oversee.
To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
Meaning & usage
To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
To inspect, examine.
Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
To observe secretly or unintentionally.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English overseen, ouverseen, from Old English ofersēon (“to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”), equivalent to over- + see.
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