oversee

To survey, look at something in a wide angle.literallytransitive

To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.figurativelytransitive

• It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.

To inspect, examine.transitive

• Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.

To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.obsoletetransitive

• Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.

To observe secretly or unintentionally.transitive