• IPA: /əʊvə(ɹ)siː/

oversee (oversees, present participle overseeing; past oversaw, past participle overseen) (transitive)

1. (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
2. (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.

   Synonyms: superintend

   It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.

3. To inspect, examine

   Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.

4. (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto IX:

     Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.

5. To observe secretly or unintentionally.

• German: überblicken
• Portuguese: sondar
• Russian: обозревать

• French: superviser
• German: beaufsichtigen, überwachen, leiten, managen
• Portuguese: supervisionar
• Spanish: supervisar

• German: beaufsichtigen, überwachen

• Portuguese: vigiar