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To oversee or direct (a task or organization).transitive
- Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.
- 2
To oversee a task, organization, etc.; to provide supervision; to act as a supervisor.intransitive
- Under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, doctors can’t claim payment from the government for a Covid-19 vaccination provided in their clinic by a nurse, unless a GP is on the premises to supervise.
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To look over so as to read; to peruse.obsoletetransitive
- Let me supervise the canzonet.
syn. superintend