supervising
- 1Present participle and gerund of supervise.
The manager spent the afternoon supervising the warehouse crew during the inventory count.
Supervising a large team requires clear communication and consistent standards.
Note
One -ing spelling does two grammatical jobs here. As a participle it follows a form of be to build the progressive (she is supervising the crew); as a gerund it stands where a noun would, as subject or object. Both keep the verb's transitive habit and take a direct object: supervising a team, a project. The old sense "peruse" is obsolete, so supervising a letter now means overseeing it, not reading it.
supervising is a form of supervise
supervise, verb: To oversee or direct a task, project, or organization, making sure it runs properly. Full entry
- Forms
- supervisesupervises he/she/itsupervising -ing formsupervised past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- supervise → supervising: drop the e, add -ing
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