Associations to the word «Oversee»

Wiktionary

OVERSEE, verb. (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
OVERSEE, verb. (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
OVERSEE, verb. To inspect, examine
OVERSEE, verb. (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
OVERSEE, verb. To observe secretly or unintentionally.

Dictionary definition

OVERSEE, verb. Watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope