oversees
USoh-vur-SEEZ/ˌoʊvɚˈsiz/UKoh-vuh-SEEZ/ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of oversee.
The director oversees every stage of the production process.
A senior editor oversees the small team that fact-checks each article.
Note
The form that goes with a single subject in the present: the director oversees, but the directors oversee. Every meaning of the verb is transitive, so it always takes an object: someone oversees a project, a team, a process. Older writing needs care, because the same form once meant nearly the opposite of supervising. It could mean failing to see something, much as overlooks does today.
oversees 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 → oversees: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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