What is the difference between oversight and oversee?
oversight | oversee | Derived terms |
An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
Supervision or management.
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, title= (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
To inspect, examine
(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
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To observe secretly or unintentionally.
Oversee is a derived term of oversight.
As a noun oversight
is an omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.As a verb oversee is
to survey, look at something in a wide angle.oversight
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(en noun)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}
oversee
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(transitive)- It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
- Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
- Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee .
