Management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

Usage examples of supervision.

But, bright as it was, the baronet relaxed nothing of his vigilant supervision.

Government of a Bill placing animal experimentation in Greta Britain under legal supervision and control.

Expressed in its simplest terms, it is a demand that the practice of animal experimentation shall be investigated by the State to determine what is actually being done, and that thereafter legislation shall be had that shall place it under such supervision and restriction as shall insure differentiation between scientific investigation performed for wise and adequate ends and purposes on the one hand, and on the other acts of a painful and brutal character performed from unworthy motives, with no adequate benefit possible as a resultant, and which clearly come within the classification of cruelty.

The Commissioners are referring only to experimentation in England, where unauthorized painful experimentation is contrary to law--certainly not to America, where no Government supervision of any kind is to be found.

There should be no effort made to prevent those experiments which involve no suffering for animals, and all animal experimentation should be brought under the direct supervision and control of the State.

He classified the seemingly hypnotic process as being only his personal supervision, meaning that he had not revealed to me the complete manipulatory technique at that particular time.

By the way, Marthe, I wish you would give your personal supervision to the preparation of my hot water in the future.

Henceforth Ireland was to be governed jointly by Cuan of the line of Lochlan, chief poet of Meath, and Corcran Cleireach, a renowned holy man and anchorite under the supervision of the Abbot of Lismore.

Another alternative is to accept the proposal of the Paladin Corporation to take over supervision of the contract granted to the Merryman Corporation.

He believed in the murrain, and he feared that without his supervision the outbreak would spread.

I can figure, he essentially wants us to take over supervision of every aspect of life aboard Outbound Flight.

The manufacture of this compound is under the special supervision of a competent chemist and pharmaceutist, and it is now put up in bottles wrapped with full directions for its use.

A photograph copy of this planisphere, of the size of the original, and the finest existing, having been made by Signor Naya, of Venice, under the express supervision of my friend, Mr.

These, with the approval and supervision of the Combine authorities, made themselves available to the Prole males for a small monetary return.

As you have probably noticed I am having some involuntary twitches in the fingers of my left hand, but under your supervision I have no doubt that this small problem will clear up sooner or later and then I can go back to my old southpaw ways.