overseeing

verbmanage, supervise

Synonyms for overseeing

verb manage, supervise

Antonyms for overseeing

managing

adjective. directing

Word Origin & History

Old English oferseon "to look down upon, keep watch over, survey, observe;" see over + see (v.). Meaning "to supervise" is attested from mid-15c. The verb lacks the double sense of similar overlook, but this emerges in the noun form oversight. Related: Oversaw; overseen.

Example Sentences for overseeing

It is labor directed by overseeing and commanding skill and knowledge.

He never employed any overseers as he done his own overseeing.

Marcus was out on some remote part of the estate, overseeing his slaves.

The forenoon was employed in labor and overseeing the work on his plantations.

Usually he enjoyed being out with the troops, overseeing their training.

The paternal eye, in overseeing the fiction of the young, must be discriminating.

The engineer was overseeing the fueling process on a big rocket.

Jim was busy with overseeing a multitude of details in the gathering of the crops.

There she is, answered Grace; she is overseeing the trench-digging.

Saxton was working outside the store, overseeing the unloading of some wagons.

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Synonyms for overseeing

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