supervise

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doublet of survey.

1. To oversee or direct (a task or organization).

   “Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.”

   “Strong personal government is, I believe, the only form of government possible in Kashmir for many years to come, but it is difficult for the Maharajas to supervise the administration of the valley when they are away in their winter capital Jammu.”

2. To oversee a task, organization, etc.; to provide supervision; to act as a supervisor.

   “Under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, doctors can’t claim payment from the government for a Covid-19 vaccination provided in their clinic by a nurse, unless a GP is on the premises to supervise.”

3. To look over so as to read; to peruse.

   “Let me supervise the canzonet.”

   “If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.”