su·per·in·tend

(so͞o′pər-ĭn-tĕnd′, so͞o′prĭn-)

tr.v. su·per·in·tend·ed, su·per·in·tend·ing, su·per·in·tends

To oversee and manage; supervise.

[Late Latin superintendere : Latin super-, super- + Latin intendere, to direct one's attention to; see intend.]

su′per·in·ten′dence n.

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Noun

superintendence - management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

supervising, supervision, oversight

management, direction - the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?"

invigilation - keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating

superintendence

noun

1. Authoritative control over the affairs of others:

administration, direction, government, management, supervision.

2. The function of watching, guarding, or overseeing:

care, charge, custody, guardianship, keeping, supervision, trust.

Translations

مُراقَبَه، مُناظَرَه، إشْراف

správa

overopsyn

Aufsicht

surveillance

felügyelet

umsjón, yfirsjón

oppsyn tilsyn

yönetim

监督

superintendence

[ˌsuːpərɪnˈtendəns] N → supervisión f
under the superintendence of → bajo la supervisión or dirección de

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superintendence

n → (Ober)aufsicht f

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superintend

(suːpərinˈtend) verb

to supervise. An adult should be present to superintend the children's activities.

ˌsuperinˈtendence noun

He placed his estate under the superintendence of a manager.

ˌsuperinˈtendent noun

1. a person who superintends something, or is in charge of an institution, building etc. the superintendent of a hospital.

2. (abbreviation super ; often abbreviated to Supt when written) a police officer of the rank above chief inspector.

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There was one grey-haired, quiet, harmless gentleman, who, winter and summer, lived in a little cottage hard by Nicholas's house, and, when he was not there, assumed the superintendence of affairs.

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When the last of the hay had been divided, Levin, intrusting the superintendence of the rest to the counting-house clerk, sat down on a haycock marked off by a stake of willow, and looked admiringly at the meadow swarming with peasants.

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The entire management of the household was, from that time forth, left in her hands; and to those duties she was free to add what companionable assistance she could render to Norah's reading, and what friendly superintendence she could still exercise over Magdalen's music.

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If the particular States in this country are disposed to stand in a similar relation to each other, and to drop the project of a general DISCRETIONARY SUPERINTENDENCE, the scheme would indeed be pernicious, and would entail upon us all the mischiefs which have been enumerated under the first head; but it would have the merit of being, at least, consistent and practicable Abandoning all views towards a confederate government, this would bring us to a simple alliance offensive and defensive; and would place us in a situation to be alternate friends and enemies of each other, as our mutual jealousies and rivalships, nourished by the intrigues of foreign nations, should prescribe to us.

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This was under the superintendence of General Clarke, brother of the celebrated traveller of the same name, who, with Lewis, made the first expedition down the waters of the Columbia.

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Neither of these persons had any concern with us, we being under the special superintendence of the head workman, but it was impossible, altogether impossible, to escape the consequences of our locales.

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I have a vision still before me, of twenty out of these fifty guests, solemnly executing intricate figure-dances, under the superintendence of an infirm local dancing-master--a mere speck of fidgety human wretchedness twisting about in the middle of an empty floor.

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At the annual ball given in the asylum, when the strict superintendence of the patients was in some degree relaxed, the alarm was raised, a little before midnight, that Ariel was missing.

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Miss Lavinia, self-charged with the superintendence of my darling's wardrobe, is constantly cutting out brown-paper cuirasses, and differing in opinion from a highly respectable young man, with a long bundle, and a yard measure under his arm.

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The practical measures proposed in them -- -such as the abolition of the distinction between town and country, of the family, of the carrying on of industries for the account of private individuals, and of the wage system, the proclamation of social harmony, the conversion of the functions of the State into a mere superintendence of production, all these proposals, point solely to the disappearance of class antagonisms which were, at that time, only just cropping up,and which, in these publications, are recognised in their earliest,indistinct and undefined forms only.

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Darcy often acknowledged himself to be under the greatest obligations to my father's active superintendence, and when, immediately before my father's death, Mr.

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The house itself had been built entirely under the superintendence of a certain Mr.

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