overseeverb [ T ]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsiː/present participle overseeing, past tense oversaw, past participle overseento watch or organize a job or an activity to make certain that it is being done correctly:
As marketing manager, her job is to oversee all the company's advertising.
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- We've just appointed a coordinator who will oversee the whole project.
- An independent moderator should be appointed to oversee the negotiations.
- The uproar led to the establishment of bioethics committees to oversee research.
- There will be an interim government to oversee the transition to democracy.
- Her department is responsible for overseeing the councils.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Managing and organizing
- act
- administer
- administration
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic
- campaign
- have sth in hand idiom
- head sth up
- in hand idiom
- kaizen
- manage
- management
- run the show idiom
- running
- shakedown
- square
- square sth/sb away
- stage
- stage-manage
- stewardship
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