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What does supervise mean?

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

Verb
  1. (transitive) To oversee or direct a task or organization.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
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The two generals will supervise seven sector commanders of colonel or lieutenant colonel rank who will take direct responsibility in the field.
I teach and supervise students who want to become speech therapists and audiologists, so my students are sensitive to my disability.
In justification of the refusal you imply that these staff are unwilling to supervise you even though they have signed the forms.
I run a geriatric psychiatry clinic at the university and supervise residents and medical students.
A subaltern and a sergeant were told off to supervise each platoon, any spare officers taking up positions in the rear of the battalion line.
He is permitted to fly in a jump seat near the captain, enabling him to supervise the cargo throughout the flight.

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