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Overseen

Oversee \O`ver*see"\, v. t. [imp. Oversaw; p. p. Overseen; p. pr. & vb. n. Overseeing.] [AS. ofers['e]on to survey, to despise. See Over, and See.]

  1. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook[2].

  2. To omit or neglect seeing; to overlook[5]. [archaic]
    --Spenser.

  3. To see unintentionally or unexpectedly; -- the visual analogy to overhear.

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overseen

vb. (past participle of oversee English)

WordNet
oversee
  1. v. watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?" [syn: supervise, superintend, manage]

  2. [also: overseen, oversaw]

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Usage examples of "overseen".

Rumsfeld and his deputies had argued that there was military utility in getting into the fight quickly and avoiding the sort of massive logistical buildup that Powell had overseen in the Persian Gulf War.

Bush and the return of much of the team that had overseen the Desert Storm campaign cause for undue alarm.

To manage postwar Iraq, the headquarters would be overseen by a three-star general and staffed by experts drawn from throughout the U.

Cleveland focused on the war-fighting, the delicate task of implementing American policy was overseen by two-star Marine General Pete Osman, who infiltrated northern Iraq from Turkey and served as the head of something called the Military Coordination and Liaison Command.

Baghdad as a senior deputy, but he provided Bremer with a forthcoming study he had overseen for the RAND Corporation on nation-building exercises from World War II through Afghanistan.

Worthington had overseen the activities with the skill of a garrison captain.

During his ghostly years he had overseen the filling of his stables and now possessed a dozen of the finest horses on the island.

The new Empire had overseen its terraforming and repopulation, but Virimonde was a poor and grim place, and would be for centuries yet to come.

Bear Claw, the Miwok medicine man, had overseen the tanning of the hide.

By the end of the year, Hawk had made his first solo flight and had overseen the construction of an landing field, complete with hangar and windsock, outside the gates of Wolf House.

Chief Engineer Azleya had overseen the technical details of the hasty environmental modifications with her usual Denobulan good humor.

Order was the refuge of those to whom it was not given to conform to the fruitful relations between men and women overseen by the great Four, but to seek their own sex.

The village of Foxbridge and the surrounding fields overseen by the tenant farmers belonged to the Cloister.

Jarvis Baltimore had apparently dealt with the purchase of timber, steel and other necessary materials for the track itself, and Nolan Baltimore had overseen the whole enterprise and concerned himself with the government and the competition.

A second computer, one limited in design specifically to its monitoring role, itself overseen by a human operator.