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What does oversee mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word oversee? Here's what it means.

Verb
  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.
  3. To inspect, examine
  4. (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
  5. To observe secretly or unintentionally.
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A lay chair would oversee the council, while a medical president would preside over the executive board.
Timmins was parachuted into Las Vegas to oversee the opening, and it quickly became obvious that the debts would need refinancing.
New staff brought into the chief executive's office will oversee the project.
Money laundering is run by organized crime and the powers that oversee drug trafficking.
In most cases, a censor and a chiliarch or centurion from the Imperial Guard were ordered to jointly oversee campaigns to apprehend brigands.
A new Justice Department would be created to oversee the work of courts and sentences set.

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