oversee

verb

Etymology: From Middle English overseen, ouverseen, from Old English ofersēon (“to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”), equivalent to over- + see.

1. To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
2. To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.

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

   “And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.”

3. To inspect, examine.

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

4. To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.

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

5. To observe secretly or unintentionally.