Supervise

Definition: Supervise

Supervise

Verb

1. Watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?".

2. Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supervise" was first used: 15th century. (references)

Synonyms: Supervise

Conduct

Conduct; manage, supervise; (direct).

Direction

Superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate; matronize; have the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule; (command); have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar.

Crosswords: Supervise

Books

• Commercial Problem Loans: How to Identify, Supervise and Collect the Problem Loan (reference)

• Handbook of Clinical Teaching: Exercises and Guidelines for Health Professionals Who Teach Patients, Train Staff or Supervise Students (reference)

• Hiring Contractors Without Going Through Hell: How to Find, Hire, Supervise, and Pay Professional Help for Home Renovations and Repairs (reference)

• How to Implement and Supervise a Learning Style Program (reference)

• How to supervise credit accounts (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Oregon. Independence, Polk County. Hop farmer's sons, washing for noon meal on back porch. They supervise the migratory workers in the field and tend to the weighing of hops. Credit: Library of Congress.

War nursery schools. Scranton, Pennsylvania.These youngsters may not be able to sing an aria but they are having a good time in a war nursery school in Scranton, which is one of four in this community. Child care centers meet a critical need for supervise. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It will take delivery of the arms, munitions and war material, will select the points where such delivery is to be effected, and will supervise the works of destruction, demolition, and of rendering things useless, which are to be carried out in accordance with the present Treaty. (reference)

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Business

In one major city appointed Chinese clergy supervise worship services. (references)

JBIC, on the other hand, must supervise RCGs to follow the procedures. (references)

Regional waste management plans are drawn up by these boards, which also coordinate and supervise environmental monitoring. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

For each faith, there is a government-affiliated association to monitor and supervise its activities. (references)

Slovak Republic

Three boards, appointed by a majority vote of Parliament, supervise radio and television broadcasting. (references)

Mongolia

Under the law, the Government may supervise and limit the number of places of worship and clergy for organized religions; however, there were no reports that the Government did so during the period covered by this report. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

The courts have often been unwilling to supervise trustees. (references)

Venezuela

Both foreign and local bank regulators now supervise these foreign-owned banks. (references)

Turkey

The BRSA was established in August 2000 to monitor and supervise Turkey's banks under the new law. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

The law gives prosecutors far-reaching authority to supervise the police during an investigation. (references)

Georgia

Prosecutors continued to direct investigations, supervise some judicial functions, and represent the state in trials. (references)

Suriname

The law requires warrants, which are issued by quasi-judicial officers who supervise criminal investigations, for searches. (references)

Political Rights

Senegal

In 1997 the Government created the ONEL to supervise and oversee elections. (references)

Central African Republic

In 1999 the Government established an Independent Electoral Commission (CEMI) to supervise the presidential election. (references)

Cameroon

The law provides for the Observatory to supervise electoral procedures from the registration of voters to the collection of reports after the polls; all polling stations are expected to have a representative from the Observatory. (references)

Trade

Moldova

In addition, a state commission on securities markets has been created to supervise the activity of securities market participants. (references)

Croatia

The new banking law, implemented in January 1999, provides greater authority to the CNB to supervise and enforce banks' performance. (references)

Ukraine

As a licensee, the enterprise can hire its own personnel to supervise the submission of customs declarations, but the customs official actually approves final clearance. (references)

Women

Saudi Arabia

However, in hospital settings and in the oil industry, women and men work together, and, in some instances, women supervise male employees. (references)

Saudi Arabia

In 1995 the Ministry of Commerce announced that women would no longer be issued business licenses for work in fields that might require them to supervise foreign workers, interact with male clients, or deal on a regular basis with government officials. (references)

Worker Rights

Bahamas

The Department of Labor must supervise the vote. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Afrikaans

kontroleer (audit, check, check up on, verify). (various references)

Albanian

mbikëqyr (overlook, oversee, watch), kontrolloj (check, control, examine, go through, guard, inspect, look over, make certain, master, perambulate, peruse, probe, ransack, review, revise, search, superintend, take charge of, take stock, verify, watch), drejtoj (address, administer, administrate, aim, aim at, align, Aline, bend, boss, canalize, Cann, carry on, chair, channel, command, con, conduct, direct, drive, funnel, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, level, manage, navigate, operate, order, pilot, point, preside, rectify, refer, rein, relegate, rule, set, shirk, shoot, show, shunt, superintend, tend, train, unbend, vector). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ناظر (agitate, beholder, caretaker, headmaster, joust, principal, superintend), ‏أشرف على بحث, ‏أشرف على (overhang, overlook, oversee, preside), ‏راقب (blue pencil, case, close, control, keep an eye on, look, look after, look on, mind, monitor, observe, overlook, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, tend, watch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ръководя (administer, administrate, be in charge of, boss, carry on, conduct, control, direct, guide, keep, lead, manage, mastermind, moderate, oversee, pioneer, rule, run, tutor, work), наглеждам (look after, monitor, superintend, watch over), надзиравам (inspect, manage, overlook, oversee, stand over, superintend). (various references)

Chinese 

董 (director, to direct), 督 , 監察 , 监督 (Oversaw, Oversee, Overseeing, Overseen, supervised, supervising, supervisory). (various references)

Czech

vést (administer, captain, carry on, channel, conduce, conduct, convey, direct, give, go, head, keep, lead, look, run, Shepherd, spearhead, steer, stock, throw, wage, walk, wheel), dozírat (invigilate, oversee, superintend), dohlížet (inspect, look after, oversee, superintend), řídit (administrate, conduct, control, direct, drive, fly, govern, guide, handle, head, keep, lead, manage, manoeuvre, navigate, operate, order, pilot, preside, regulate, steer, wield). (various references)

Danish

kontrolere (audit, check, check up on, verify). (various references)

Dutch

controleren (audit, check, check up on, verify), checken (audit, check, check up on, verify), aflezen (audit, check, check up on, read, read out, verify). (various references)

Esperanto

kontroli (audit, check, check up on, verify). (various references)

Faeroese

kanna (accredit, audit, check, check up on, examine, explore, investigate, jug, pitcher, research, study, verify), hava eftirlit við (audit, check, check up on, verify). (various references)

Farsi 

نظارت کردن (Address, Administer, Control, Proctor), رسیدگی کردن (Attend, Audit, Check, Inquire, Inspect, Verify), برنگری کردن . (various references)

Finnish

tarkastaa (audit, check, check up on, examine, go through, inspect, look over, observe, review, revise, test, verify, watch). (various references)

French

surveiller (superintend). (various references)

Frisian

kontrolearje (audit, check, check up on, verify). (various references)

German

kontrollieren (audit, check, check on, check up on, control, examine, inspect, monitor, to control, verify), beaufsichtigen (guard, inspect, invigilate, keep, look after, mind, nurse, observe, oversee, superintend, to invigilate, to oversee, to superintend, to supervise), überwachen (audit, check, check up on, guard, keep, keep a watch on, look after, monitor, observe, oversee, patrol, police, to observe, to oversee, verify, watch, watch over). (various references)

Greek 

επιβλέπω (overlook, oversee, superintend, watch over). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפקח (control, inspect, oversee, superintend, tend), ל�"ש�'יח (care, look after, look out, monitor, notice, oversee, regard, tend, watch). (various references)

Hungarian

felülvizsgál (check up, reconsider, to check up, to reconsider, to review, to supervise, to survey, to vet), felügyel (inspect, invigilate, overlook, oversee, superintend, to control, to mind, to see after, to superintend, to supervise, to tend). (various references)

Indonesian

mengawasi (administer, control, oversee), membawahi (be under). (various references)

Italian

vigilare (control, keep watch, observe, oversee, watch, watch over), verificare (ascertain, audit, check, check up on, come true, control, happen, overhaul, predictate, prove, toggle, try, verify), controllare (audit, check, check up on, command, control, control oneself, examine, govern, inspect, monitor, overlook, school, verify, vet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� め括り�'やる (to control, to supervise), 統べる　 (to control, to supervise), 統べる (to control, to supervise), 取り� まる (to control, to manage, to supervise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すべる (to control, to glide, to slide, to slip, to supervise), しめくくり�'やる (to control, to supervise), とりしまる (to control, to manage, to supervise). (various references)

Korean 

감독하십시�". (various references)

Manx

stiurey (captain as team; guidance, captain; guidance, command, control, controllability, direct, direction, guide, handle, handling, helm, lead, manage, manipulate, manipulation, navigate, navigation, pilot, piloting, regulate, regulation, rudder, steer, steering, superintendence, supervision), oaseiraghey (oversee, superintend). (various references)

Papiamen

kontrolá (audit, check, check up on, verify), chèk (audit, check, check up on, cheque, verify). (various references)

Pig Latin

upervisesay

Portuguese

supervisionar (overlook, verify), inspecionar (examine, inspect, look, overhaul, overlook, oversee, perambulate, review, survey, verify, view), fiscalizar (check, invigilate, police, superintend, verify). (various references)

Romanian

supraveghea (chaperon, direct, keep under, keep watch, look after, manage, observe, overlook, oversee, see, superintend, watch), economisi (administer, economize, put in the box, save, scrape), controla (audit, check, control, direct, examine, govern, inspect, intercept, observe, oversee, prove, restrain, rule, sift, test, verify), conduce (accompany, administer, be in command, boss, boss the show, captain, carry on, charge, command, conduct, control, convey, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, handle, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, restrain, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, show up, steer, superintend, take, wield). (various references)

Russian 

надзирать (overlook, oversee), заведовать (be head, manage, superintend), просматривать (browse, browse in, browse through, look over, look through, peruse, revise, run over, search through, skim, skim over, skim through). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nadgledati (monitor, oversee). (various references)

Spanish

controlar (audit, censor, censure, check, check up on, control, direct, get under, monitor, talk down, talk through, verify), revisar (audit, check, check over, check up on, examine, go over, inspect, look at, look over, overhaul, revise, service, verify, vet), registrar (audit, check, check up on, clock, enrol, enroll, enter, examine, file, inspect, list, look through, minute, record, register, ring up, schedule, search, show, tackle, verify, write down). (various references)

Swedish

kontrollera (audit, check, check out, check up, check up on, control, go over, monitor, screen, verify, visit). (various references)

Turkish

yönetmek (administer, administrate, boss, captain, celebrate, chair, command, conduct, direct, edit, govern, head, lead, oversee, police, preside, produce, rule, run, run the show, steer), nezaret etmek, idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rein in, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer), gözetmek (guard, oversee, protect, study, tend), denetlemek (audit, check, control, examine, inspect, oversee, superintend), bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch). (various references)

Ukrainian

контролювати (check, command, control, monitor, police, rule, superintend), наглядати (oversee), завідувати (operate). (various references)

Welsh

goruchwylio (oversee). (various references)

Zulu

ukuhlola (audit, check, check up on, verify). (various references)

super. (various references)

aiwyâxshayeiñti. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "supervise": supervised, supervises. (additional references)

Words containing "supervise": unsupervised. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Supervise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saperavi, Supadriv, supervize. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: previses.

-2 letters: peruses, previse, prevues, pussier, reissue, revises, seisure, suspire, uprises, vespers, viruses.

-3 letters: espies, issuer, peises, perses, peruse, pisser, prevue, prises, purees, purses, reives, reuses, revise, revues, rupees, seiser, series, serves, severs, sieurs, sieves, sirees, sirups, sivers, speers, speirs, speise, spiers, spires, sprees, sprues, supers, uprise, verses, versus, vesper, vipers.

-4 letters: erses, issue.

+1 letter: percussive, persuasive, pulverises, supervised, supervises, superwives.

+2 letters: herpesvirus, suppressive.

+3 letters: oversupplies, percussively, persuasively, perviousness, previousness, repercussive, sempervivums, superlatives, supermassive, unexpressive, unimpressive, unpersuasive, unresponsive, unsupervised.

+4 letters: herpesviruses, purposiveness, repulsiveness, superventions, unprogressive.

+5 letters: disruptiveness, imperviousness, overpersuasion, percussiveness, persuasiveness, perviousnesses, previousnesses, productiveness, protrusiveness, superachievers, superexpensive, supergravities, supersensitive, supportiveness, unresponsively.