Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To oversee or direct (a task or organization).

    Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.

    beaufsichtigen

    заве́доватьzavédovatʹ

    наглядатиnahljadaty

    watch and direct

  2. (intransitive)To oversee a task, organization, etc.; to provide supervision; to act as a supervisor.

  3. (obsolete, transitive)To look over so as to read; to peruse.

Examples

50 sentences
  1. I want to talk to your supervising officer.

    deIch möchte mit Ihrem Vorgesetzten sprechen.

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  2. Tom is supervising.

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  3. Who'll supervise Tom?

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  4. Supervise your own children.

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  5. Tom Jackson is the supervising producer.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to oversee or direct:
Русский
By meaning 1
to oversee or direct:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to oversee or direct:

Origin

Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doub

Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doublet of survey.

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Forms

supervises, supervising, supervised, supervised
Base formsupervise · to supervise
3rd person singularsupervises
Present participlesupervising
Past simplesupervised
Past participlesupervised

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysupervise
he, she, itsupervises

Past simpleLesson

all personssupervised

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave supervised
he, she, ithas supervised

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill supervise

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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