overseeing
- 1Present participle and gerund of oversee.
The senior architect is overseeing construction of the new wing.
Overseeing dozens of contractors required constant coordination.
Note
The -ing form does double duty. After be it carries the progressive (is overseeing the project); as a gerund it acts as a noun while still taking a direct object (overseeing staff is tiring), because oversee is transitive. Today it means supervising or inspecting, but an obsolete use ran the other way, meaning to fail to see or to overlook, so older texts can surprise. It can also mean watching secretly or by accident.
overseeing is a form of oversee
oversee, verb: To watch over a person's or group's activities and guide or check them. Full entry
- Spelling
- oversee → overseeing: add -ing
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