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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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In most cases, a censor and a chiliarch or centurion from the Imperial Guard were ordered to jointly oversee campaigns to apprehend brigands.
Another recommendation calls for the creation of a new system-level office under the chancellor to oversee programs targeted at the problem.
A lay chair would oversee the council, while a medical president would preside over the executive board.
There was no health and safety plan in place or a supervisor appointed to oversee the works.
The Council also has the power to oversee the Leader's work and to dismiss him if he fails to perform his duties properly.
He has agreed to oversee guest activities outdoors, but he knows he is no businessman.

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