- 1vB2
/ˌoʊvərˈsiː/ · /ˌəʊvəˈsiː/
To be responsible for a group of workers or a piece of work, and to make sure it is done well.
監督；監管
過去式 oversaw過去分詞 overseen-ing overseeing三單 oversees
核心畫面
Picture standing above the work rather than in it — you are not doing the job yourself, but it is yours if it goes wrong. The word is about position: high enough to see the whole thing, close enough to be answerable for it.
可以想成：站在工作的上方，而不是在裡面——事情不是你親手做的，但出了問題是你的責任。這個字說的是位置：高到看得見全局…更多收起
可以想成：站在工作的上方，而不是在裡面——事情不是你親手做的，但出了問題是你的責任。這個字說的是位置：高到看得見全局，近到必須為它負責。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
overseeverb/ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/
- 1
To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
- 2
To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
- It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
- And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.
- 3
To inspect, examine.
- Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
- 4
obsoleteTo fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
- Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.
- 5
To observe secretly or unintentionally.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。