Supervise
Origin
Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre.
Full definition of supervise
Verb
- (transitive) To direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 19, 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.
- Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.
- (transitive, obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, , IV. ii. 120:Let me supervise the canzonet.