Usually means: Supervise, manage, and monitor operations.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word oversee:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. oversee: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oversee: Merriam-Webster
  3. oversee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oversee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oversee: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oversee: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oversee, oversee: Wordnik
  8. oversee: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. oversee: Wiktionary
  10. oversee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. oversee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. oversee: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Oversee, oversee: Dictionary.com
  14. oversee: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. oversee: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Oversee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. oversee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. oversee: Rhymezone
  19. oversee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. oversee: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. oversee: FreeDictionary.org
  22. oversee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. oversee: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oversee: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
▸ verb:  To inspect, examine
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
▸ verb:  To observe secretly or unintentionally.

Similar:
manage, supervise, superintend, survey, oversight, review, look over, see over, overeye, surview, more...

Opposite:
overlook, supervise

Types:
direct, supervise, more...

Phrases:
to oversee, oversee a port transfer, more...

Colors:
    teal,     azure,     sky blue,     cerulean,     sapphire, more...


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Similar:
manage, supervise, superintend, survey, oversight, review, look over, see over, overeye, surview, more...

Opposite:
overlook, supervise

Types:
direct, supervise, more...

Phrases:
to oversee, oversee a port transfer, more...

Colors:
    teal,     azure,     sky blue,     cerulean,     sapphire, more...



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