supervise
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See also: supervisé
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doublet of survey.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsuː.pə.vaɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsuː.pɚ.vaɪz/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsʉː.pə.vɑɪz/
Verb
supervise (third-person singular simple present supervises, present participle supervising, simple past and past participle supervised)
- (transitive) To oversee or direct a task or organization.
- Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.
- 1895, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, The Valley of Kashmir, page 3:
- Strong personal government is, I believe, the only form of government possible in Kashmir for many years to come, but it is difficult for the Maharajas to supervise the administration of the valley when they are away in their winter capital Jammu.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- 1934, Tung Chi Lin, Chinese Expansion to the Northeast: Methods and Mechanisms, University of California, →OCLC, page 37:
- While both the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula were under the jurisdiction of Ho-pei Province, a Protectorate of An-tung was established at P'ing-jang to supervise the Peninsular states and two High Commanders were stationed at You-chou and P'ing-lu […]
- (transitive, obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV. ii. 120:
- Let me supervise the canzonet.
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:
- If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.
Related terms
Translations
to oversee or direct
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Pronunciation
Verb
supervise
- inflection of superviser:
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supervise
- inflection of supervisar:
Pronunciation
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supervise
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