Crossword clues for supervising
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
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To look over so as to read; to peruse. [Obs.]
--Shak.Syn: See Superintend.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of supervise English)
WordNet
n. management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group [syn: supervision, superintendence, oversight]
Usage examples of "supervising".
Citadel Guard Captain Aram Helsarn, routinely supervising part of the purging, intercepted the army company withdrawing from the Ennerhald with their dead and injured and their wild tale about death-pit dogs lurking in one of the buildings.
Casanova passed the months of May, June and July 1788 at Prague, supervising the printing of the Histoire de ma fuite.
Caesar in his galloping gig as he went from one site to the next, supervising the division of land, making sure that those who would carry on with the work knew how to do it, issuing the charters outlining colonial laws, bylaws and ordinances, and personally choosing the first lot of citizens who would sit on each governing council.
A great deal of his time was filled in shuttling back and forth between Myndus and Cnidus, which he could do while supervising, for the land army had to be fit for action too, and he believed in the personal touch.
Megar stood supervising the kitchen workers, several of whom waved greetings to the boys.
Jack Shanklin, a dairyman in Sussex, was supervising the milking of his herd of Guernseys when the milking machines turned on him, murdered him, and then entered the Shanklin home and raped Mrs.
Andrew watched it, as he went from barn-tunnels to greenhouses, going through the motions of supervising stewards and handymen, with outrage and disbelief.
On a sweltering night at the height of summer, Eliste sat in her bedchamber, fanning herself and supervising while Kairthe sewed jewellery into the hems of petticoats and chemises.
Five minutes later the ancient truck, the two packards, the jeep, and the last of the stevedores were gone and macdonald was busy supervising the placing of the battens on number four hold.
At the moment, Emmet was speaking to Dave Greeley, who was supervising two white-smocked technicians as they telemanipulated Lucky, who was limp as a dish cloth, into a low walled box set between banks of electronic tubes and transistors.
Her duty that night was in the control office on the aerodrome, supervising the signallers and keeping track of the machines as the reports came in, marking them up upon the blackboard for the duty control officer to see, searching the country by telephone for the missing.
But Belial had gradually relaxed, supervising the daily training routines of his men while making sure they spent an equal amount of time in leisure.
What with keeping an eye on Papa Dupont that prevented his drinking himself to death seven times per calendar week, and an eye on Sofia that was fondly credited with being largely responsible for her failure to run away with each and every presentable man who ogled her, and browbeating the waiters and frustrating their attempts to cheat the house out of its fair dues, and supervising the marketing and the cuisine: believe it or not, Mama Therese led a tolerably busy life and deserved whatever gratification she got out of it, to say nothing of highest commendation for industry, fidelity, and frugality.
East, supervising the demolition of the old town of Byzantium so that he could create a new Rome that would bear his name.
Squire Roland will be supervising a joint reinforcement from Carse and Tulan at Jonril this winter.