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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supervise
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ Once this has been achieved, the manager judges results and does not closely supervise the actions of his staff.
▪ In either case, an individual's initial training period will be closely supervised as outlined below.
▪ Your work will be closely supervised and regularly reviewed but as the training progresses, the responsibility you are given will increase.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ These senior officers supervise the activities of the one or two assistant field officers also found in most areas.
▪ Care assistants help to run and supervise these activities.
▪ P Combe supervised all laboratory activities.
▪ A housing association will coordinate and supervise development activity.
child
▪ Working closely with two medical co-ordinators and a training officer, she supervises Cornwall's child protection procedures.
▪ If the setting is inadequately supervised, the child can easily feel scared and vulnerable.
construction
▪ Those taking early retirement find a challenge in planning and supervising the construction of a customised home.
duty
▪ Many of the pupils were boarders so part of the duties included supervising the compound where the students lived.
▪ The court said that schools do not have a duty to supervise the grounds at all times.
election
▪ The army supervised the elections of 1867 and 1868 and was called in from time to time thereafter to settle scattered disputes.
failure
▪ As an absolute minimum they will hold the member liable for any failure to supervise.
officer
▪ These senior officers supervise the activities of the one or two assistant field officers also found in most areas.
▪ Working closely with two medical co-ordinators and a training officer, she supervises Cornwall's child protection procedures.
operation
▪ Even at long range, without the help of an on board computer, Earth could still supervise this operation.
▪ Presumably he has remained at the back to supervise the operation.
▪ The proprietor owns or obtains the materials and capital equipment used in the operation of the business and personally supervises its operation.
▪ It is the latter who supervises the operations of the house and helps residents out with the housekeeping and money management skills.
▪ He supervised operations from a large warehouse at Greenwich on the Thames, whence he supplied the metropolitan market in particular.
project
▪ He spends about 10 days each month back in Hong Kong, supervising projects in the works at his production company.
▪ Large construction projects, like an office building or industrial complex for example, are too complicated for one person to supervise.
staff
▪ Donations are taken by trained staff supervised by doctors and nurses.
▪ So the agencies appointed a board of directors composed of their senior staff to supervise their funds.
student
▪ These tutors are responsible for the professional development of each student in the group and supervise the students on block teaching practices.
▪ One fourth-grade teacher gave up her daily break to supervise one of her students during recess.
▪ Assignments will include teaching and supervising post-professional graduate students, and teaching in a three year professional Bachelor of Architecture program.
▪ The first relates to the capacity of the teacher training colleges adequately to supervise their scattered students.
work
▪ In 1441 he took over the work from two Venetian architects and supervised the work for the next three decades.
▪ He spends about 10 days each month back in Hong Kong, supervising projects in the works at his production company.
▪ Brunel planned and supervised the work himself.
▪ Secretaries often supervise other employees and work directly with top officials to get things done, Chaney said.
▪ He says both Mr Mellor and his wife, who supervised most of the work, were kept informed of escalating costs.
▪ They train, schedule, and supervise the work of housekeepers, inspect rooms, and order cleaning supplies.
▪ Tutors would supervise their students' work in the manner of teacher trainers.
▪ Each year Asbury tried to reach every state in order to goad his men and to supervise their work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All volunteers are supervised by a qualified nurse.
▪ At work, she supervises a production team of fifteen.
▪ Ruff supervises a staff of more than 200 lawyers.
▪ The teacher's duties that morning included supervising the before-school reading program.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Catherine, the same young woman who had come to the farm, supervised the visit in a fenced-in playground.
▪ He sees bits and pieces of it in between working lights and smoke effects and supervising a crew of 10 electricians.
▪ He spends about 10 days each month back in Hong Kong, supervising projects in the works at his production company.
▪ He wanted me to come and supervise the demolition of a block in the Gorbals, at Florence Square.
▪ The court said that schools do not have a duty to supervise the grounds at all times.
▪ Tutors would supervise their students' work in the manner of teacher trainers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supervise

Supervise \Su`per*vise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supervised; p. pr. & vb. n. Supervising.] [Pref. super- + L. visere to look at attentively, to view, surely, intens. from videre, visum, to see. Cf. Survise, and Survey.]

  1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.

  2. To look over so as to read; to peruse. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Syn: See Superintend.

Supervise

Supervise \Su`per*vise"\, n. Supervision; inspection. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
supervise

late 15c., "to look over" (implied in supervising), from Medieval Latin supervisus, past participle of supervidere "oversee, inspect," from Latin super "over" (see super-) + videre "see" (see vision). Meaning "to oversee and superintend the work or performance of others" is attested from 1640s. Related: Supervised.

Wiktionary
supervise

vb. (context transitive English) To direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge

WordNet
supervise

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

  2. keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance [syn: monitor, ride herd on]

Usage examples of "supervise".

Asia, supervising intelligence flights over trouble spots like Korea and Vietnam when the first BuPers announcement was posted inviting any Navy fliers with test-pilot experience to volunteer for the pool from which a small group of men would be chosen for astronaut training.

The most autocratic examples of shaykhly power were in the rice-growing region near Al Amarah, where the need for organized and supervised labor and the rigorous requirements of rice cultivation generated the most oppressive conditions.

Since Congress may not supersede the power of a State to determine how a corporation shall be formed, supervised and dissolved, a corporation which has been dissolved by a decree of a State court may not file a petition for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Acts.

I turned to Bellan, who was standing a little behind me, supervising the rub a groom was giving the blacks.

Mora is supervising the dispersal of the search teams, and Sels and Bett have flown out to coordinate the desert search.

Two fierce old women supervised the process, discussing them as bluntly as if they were newly acquired donkeys.

While the others worked, Brewster supervised and drew up plans and concentrated on making a suitable pair of spectacles for Bob.

From her CV, Henry had learned that Marchetti was thirty-two, had dual doctorates in reproductive medicine and microbiology from the University of Milan, and had worked for six years at an Italian pharmaceutical house supervising the production of human growth hormone from bacteria.

You can acquire many of these skills by reading the books, but to become a certified paraprofessional helper you must, of course, be observed and supervised extensively in real life situations by a qualified trainer.

Major counseling contact with the child can be made by paraprofessionals or supplementary teachers who will be trained as therapeutic tutors and supervised by the school mental health specialist.

So Parral was supervising the loading of the last few art treasures into the ship.

Butler, one of the two heavy weapons men, who carried the machine gun, saying it was Persico who checked his aiming stakes, who told him where to tie in his fire, who supervised the laying of the claymores.

With a polite smile, which was almost a mocking sneer, Phorias saluted and returned to supervising the purification of the gunpowder.

Langenschmidt reflected, that Quist had sent them a fool to supervise the evacuation.

Somewhere in the middle of it, while Kemp was supervising the recoupling of the tractors to the other end of the rig it was discovered that McGrath was missing.