overseen
USoh-vur-SEEN/oʊ.vɚ.sin/UKoh-vuh-SEEN/ˌəʊ.vəˈsiːn/
- 1Past participle of oversee.
Construction had been overseen by a team of engineers before the final inspection.
The leadership transition was overseen by an interim director for several weeks.
Note
The form that pairs with have for the perfect and with be for the passive, distinct from the simple past oversaw: they had overseen the build; the build was overseen. It carries every meaning of oversee. A scene can be overseen in the sense of watched secretly as well as supervised. In older writing it can even mean the opposite of supervision: failed to see, overlooked.
overseen is a form of oversee
oversee, verb: To watch over a person's or group's activities and guide or check them. Full entry
- Forms
- overseeoversees he/she/itoverseeing -ing formoversaw past tenseoverseen past participle
- Spelling
- oversee → overseen: irregular (no -ed)
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