英语词汇“oversee”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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oversee

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	oversee
	he, she, it	oversees
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	oversaw
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have overseen
	he, she, it	has overseen
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had overseen
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will oversee
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have overseen

Continuous Form
Present	I	am overseeing
	he, she, it	is overseeing
	you, we, they	are overseeing
Past	I, he, she, it	was overseeing
	you, we, they	were overseeing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been overseeing
	he, she, it	has been overseeing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been overseeing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be overseeing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been overseeing

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Administrators oversee the testing of students, to place them in the appropriate classes.
Mr. Somers oversaw construction of the water treatment plant.
Schultz oversees 61 workers and a $5.9 million budget.
Team leaders and project managers oversee groups of programming staff.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

DeConcini also chaired the Senate appropriations subcommittee overseeing Customs' budget.
Eizenstat oversaw the talks from the White House, to keep them moving.
For more than two years, he was chairman of the Czechoslovak parliament, overseeing the slow and often painful march to democracy.
He can make sure that the campaign office, which he oversees, and the White House are in step.
He will appoint a five-member board that serves at his pleasure to oversee development of the island for city use.
One criticism leveled at Thornton was she had no experience overseeing a housing authority.
The Air Force sent an AWACs command-and-control aircraft just to oversee their flights.

Longman Language Activatorto be in charge of an activity or group of people► be in charge

if you are in charge of an activity or a group of people, you are the person who has the authority to control what happens, tell other people what to do etc: · He's the captain. He's in charge, so he's responsible for anything that happens.be in charge of: · Who's the officer in charge of the investigationbe in charge of doing something: · As senior supervisor, she is in charge of training new employees.put somebody in charge: · Two years after joining the police force, he was put in charge of the department's records.

► run

to be the person who makes the important decisions about what will happen in a business, organization, country etc: · She runs a company called Sunshine Holidays.· a drug counselling service that is run by ex-addicts· Who really runs the country - the elected government or big business?well/badly/poorly etc run: · The voting process was smooth and, for the most part, well-run.state-run (=run by the government): · a state-run mental hospital

► manage

to be in charge of a business, especially one that is owned by someone else: · My husband manages a mill, 200 miles north of Bombay.· Managing four pizza outlets is extremely hard work.· The family business was skilfully managed by her elder brother, Michael.

► head

if you head a company or activity, you are in charge of it: · Levy headed an investigation into the fund mismanagement.· The program is headed by an expert in teaching gifted and talented children.head up American informal: · Heading up the investigation into the crash is Officer Frank Foyle.

► lead

to be the person with responsibility for a large group or team that is working together on an important activity: · The drug raid was led by top officers.· Dr Jenkins leads a team of researchers at the Plant Institute.· A group of 80 planes, led by Lieutenant Commander Egusha, was on its way to attack.

► supervise

to be in charge of a group of workers or students and be responsible for making sure that they do their work properly, especially by being with them to give instructions, answer questions etc: · At work, she supervises a production team of fifteen.· All volunteers are supervised by a qualified nurse.· The teacher's duties that morning included supervising the before-school reading program.

► oversee

formal to be in charge of a group of workers, especially when this involves planning and organizing what they should do rather than being with them or giving instructions to them directly: · Team leaders and project managers oversee groups of programming staff.· Administrators oversee the testing of students, to place them in the appropriate classes.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► agency

· A price review board, created as an independent agency in 1987, oversees the cost of drugs.

► billion

· Now the firm, which oversees $ 8 billion, has a new target.· The Pittsburgh-based money manager oversees about $ 60 billion in investments.

► commission

· As criticism of Montes mounted, Salinas appointed a five-member civil commission to oversee the investigation.

► committee

· For example, we see individual universities establishing their own central committee for overseeing academic standards across all disciplines.· Goudinoff does want to push for an independent committee to oversee future redrawing of boundaries for supervisors' districts.· The uproar led to reforms in medical consent procedures and establishment of bioethics committees to oversee research.· The ceremony was approved by the committee that oversees Mission Trails Regional Park.· He is expected to ask the 12-person committee to oversee efforts to implement more than a dozen recommendations in the report.

► management

· Appeldoorn will continue to act as an advisor to the management board and will oversee the integration of Arcade into Wegener.

► manager

· Natural science managers oversee activities in agricultural science, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, or physics.· The Pittsburgh-based money manager oversees about $ 60 billion in investments.· Some administrative services managers oversee unclaimed property disposal.· All managers who oversee departmental supervisors should be familiar with office procedures and equipment.· In small organizations, a single administrative services manager may oversee all support services.· First-line administrative services managers directly oversee staffs involved in various support services.

► million

· Co. in Delray Beach, Florida, which oversees $ 140 million.

► office

· He can make sure that the campaign office, which he oversees, and the White House are in step.

► operation

· The group will oversee the Continental operations.· The settlement plan also establishes an independent task force of experts to oversee the personnel operations of the company for five years.· While with the Chargers for the past two years, McNeely oversaw the day-to-day business operations.· Rules are rules, and the authorities who oversee the tour operation are tired of ignoring them.· She worked at Bethel for a time as minister for communication, overseeing its broadcasting operations and other matters.

► process

· In addition, one partner had taken responsibility for overseeing the whole process.· City Auditor Jim Flanagan has overseen the process from the beginning.

► program

· They oversee career counseling programs, and testing which measures students' abilities and helps place them in appropriate classes.· In each city a project director oversees the program in coordination with the school district and an advisory board of local businesses.· While at the school, he oversaw 16 sports programs.

► project

· They oversee long-term planting projects for community groups.· Indeed, even as Leopold oversaw the Curtis project, he wondered if anyone could plant wilderness.

► state

· As things stand, ministers who oversee large state industries enjoy free accommodation at five-star hotels and foreign travel.· Ruben Figueroa was indirectly implicated, since he oversees the state government.· Oklahoma Futures oversees the state Department of Commerce and approves the annual business plans of several other state development authorities.

► subcommittee

· DeConcini also chaired the Senate appropriations subcommittee overseeing Customs' budget.· Lauch Faircloth, a Republican who heads the Senate subcommittee that oversees the district.