{
    "term": "oversee",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "oversee",
            "heSheIt": "oversees"
        },
        "pastSimple": "oversaw",
        "pastParticiple": "overseen",
        "ingForm": "overseeing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to watch somebody/something and make sure that a job or an activity is done correctly",
            "sensetop": "oversee somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "United Nations observers oversaw the elections."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He personally oversaw the design of all the rooms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She will be responsible for overseeing strategic and operational plans."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The body was set up to oversee the implementation of the peace treaty."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["directly", "personally"],
                "verb + oversee": ["be appointed to", "be created to", "be set up to"],
                "phrases": ["be responsible for overseeing something"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvəˈsiː/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/oversee__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/overseas__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvəˈsɔː/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/oversaw__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvəˈsiːn/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/overseen__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvəˈsiːɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/overseeing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvərˈsiː/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/oversee__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvərˈsiːz/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/oversees__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvərˈsɔː/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/oversaw__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvərˈsiːn/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/overseen__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌəʊvərˈsiːɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ov/oversee/overseeing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English ofersēon ‘look at from above’ (see over- and the verb see)."
}