Oversee

//ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː//

Synonyms for "oversee" (42 found)

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Related terms

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derived

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manner of

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related to

12 entries

Translations

62 translations across 19 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • mbikëqyr verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἐφοράω verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Arabic

1 entries
  • أَشْرَفَ عَلَى verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • надзиравам verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • преглеждам verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)
  • съглеждам verb (to see secretly or unintentionally)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 指导 verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • 检查 verb (to inspect, examine)
  • 监督 verb (to see secretly or unintentionally)
  • 監督 /监督 verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Dutch

4 entries
  • bekijken verb (to inspect, examine)
  • een oog(je) houden op verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • overschouwen verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)
  • overzien verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)

Finnish

4 entries
  • johtaa verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • katsoa verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)
  • katsoa verb (to inspect, examine)
  • kytätä verb (to see secretly or unintentionally)

French

1 entries
  • superviser verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

German

4 entries
  • beaufsichtigen verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • beaufsichtigen verb (to inspect, examine)
  • leiten verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • managen verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Italian

4 entries
  • esaminare verb (to inspect, examine)
  • ispezionare verb (to inspect, examine)
  • sondare verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)
  • supervisionare verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Middle English

2 entries
  • surveyen verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • surveyen verb (to inspect, examine)

Polish

4 entries
  • doglądać verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • nadzorować verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • przeglądać verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)
  • przejrzeć verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • sondar verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)
  • supervisionar verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)
  • vigiar verb (to see secretly or unintentionally)

Russian

1 entries
  • обозревать verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)

Spanish

1 entries
  • supervisar verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • yärp verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Tok Pisin

1 entries
  • bosim verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Turkish

4 entries
  • bakmak verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)
  • denetlemek verb (to inspect, examine)
  • gözetim altında tutmak verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)
  • gözetmek verb (to survey, look at something in a wide angle)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • наглядати verb (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.

Source: tatoeba (3484557)

Americo Carrillo, the architect who will oversee the work, described the church as "a gem from Peru's colonial era."

Source: tatoeba (8349974)

Maternity nurses, midwives and doctors oversee the birth.

Source: tatoeba (10329936)

Google chief executive officer Larry Page announced in a blog post Monday that he and co-founder Sergey Brin will head a new holding company called Alphabet, which will oversee the original Google company that includes its now-iconic search engine and its popular YouTube video service.

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