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supervise
1. v. To oversee or direct a task or organization.
Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.
2. v. (transitive, obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.

Example Sentences

I didn't question it of course, it would have been nice for him to stay around and supervise the production but deserved a rest.  How can I supervise that if the numbers are all Greek to me?  There should be an international committee headed by a prominent personality to supervise the return of displaced people to their homes, while at the same time not encroaching on human rights.

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