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Another word for superintend

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Verb

  1. To have charge of (the affairs of others)

    See also:

    over

  2. To direct and watch over the work and performance of others

    See also:

    over

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Another word for superintend

Verb
  1. See also:

    watch

    manage

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • American experts are frequently employed to superintend the estates and factories.

  • Her father had no leisure to devote to her training, and her mother was too illiterate to superintend her studies.

  • Other police officers of the central brigades superintend the street traffic.

  • At the request of Henry VIII., a licence was granted to Regnault for this purpose by Francis I., while Coverdale and Grafton were sent over in 1538 to superintend the work as it passed through the press.

  • He built a house on Odiorne's Point overlooking Little Harbor, and, although he removed to an island in Boston Harbor in 1626, he may have continued to superintend the business of the company .until the expiration of the five-year term.

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