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Synonyms for overseeing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : oh-ver-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˌoʊ vərˈsi

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Définition of overseeing

Origin :
  • Old English oferseon "to look down upon, keep watch over, survey, observe;" see over + see (v.). Meaning "to supervise" is attested from mid-15c. The verb lacks the double sense of similar overlook, but this emerges in the noun form oversight. Related: Oversaw; overseen.
  • verb manage, supervise
Example sentences :
  • It is labor directed by overseeing and commanding skill and knowledge.
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  • He never employed any overseers as he done his own overseeing.
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  • Marcus was out on some remote part of the estate, overseeing his slaves.
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  • The forenoon was employed in labor and overseeing the work on his plantations.
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  • Usually he enjoyed being out with the troops, overseeing their training.
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  • The paternal eye, in overseeing the fiction of the young, must be discriminating.
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  • The engineer was overseeing the fueling process on a big rocket.
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  • Jim was busy with overseeing a multitude of details in the gathering of the crops.
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  • There she is, answered Grace; she is overseeing the trench-digging.
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  • Saxton was working outside the store, overseeing the unloading of some wagons.
  • Extract from : « Plain Mary Smith » by Henry Wallace Phillips

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