oversee Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb watch and direct
    superintend; manage; supervise.
    • Who is overseeing this project?

WordNet

O`ver*see" transitive verb
Etymology
AS. oferséon to survey, to despise. See Over, and See.
Wordforms
imperfect Oversaw ; past participle Overseen ; present participle & verbal noun Overseeing
Definitions
  1. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
  2. To omit or neglect seeing. Spenser.
O`ver*see" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. Obs.
    The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. Fuller.
    Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin. Walpole.

Webster 1913