verb
definition
To oversee or direct a task or organization.
example
Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.
definition
To look over so as to read; to peruse.
adjective
definition
Done under supervision; watched.
Examples of supervised in a Sentence
The judges are strictly supervised and appeal is allowed.
Primary instruction is free but not compulsory, and the schools are supported and supervised by the states.
From 1773 to 1775 he represented the town of Windsor in the general assembly of Connecticut, and in the latter year became a member of the important commission known as the "Pay Table," which supervised the colony's expenditures for military purposes during the War of Independence.
In secular affairs Charles abolished the office of duke, placed counts over districts smaller than the former duchies, and supervised their government by means of missi dominici, officials responsible to himself alone.
His education was supervised by the devout duc de la Vauguyon, but his own taste was for the writings of Voltaire and the encyclopaedists.
To ensure economy, the decisions of this body are supervised by a government commissioner.
Two years afterwards, following the example of Chateaubriand, he supervised an elaborate edition of his own works in forty-one volumes.
Meanwhile all the other campaigns had been closely supervised by Grant, preoccupied though he was with the operations against his own adversary.
Britton himself supervised the reparation of Waltham Cross and Stratford-onAvon church.
Educational matters are supervised by a state board, composed of the governor, comptroller and secretary of state, by a superintendent of public instruction, who is ex officio secretary of the board, by county superintendents (in counties having a school population of 3000 or more), by superintendents.
The theory was that all the imperial business in Germany was supervised by the elector of Mainz, and for Italy by the elector of Cologne.
His artistic education was chiefly supervised by his father, but he also attended the York School of Design, and worked for a short time in the Royal Academy Schools.
He also supervised the compilation of a comprehensive series of volumes by various writers on Descriptive Sociology, of which by 1881 eight parts on different racial areas had been published (at a loss to him of £3250) as the result of fourteen years of labour.
The director-general was formally appointed by the Company subject to the approval of the States-General, but the Amsterdam Chamber and the College of Nineteen supervised his administration.
Cleveland, in editing A Political Text-book (1860), and supervised for many years the annual issues of The Whig Almanac and The Tribune Almanac, comprising extensive political statistics.
The training of teachers is carefully supervised.
As with all computer activities, make sure the time and sites are supervised.
The children participate in supervised, age-appropriate activities.
Since the State supervised the schools without maintaining them, it was able to increase its demands without being hampered by financial considerations.
His elder brother Napoleon supervised his education with much care, gaining for him scholarships to the royal military schools of France, and during the time when the elder brother was a lieutenant in garrison at Auxonne Louis shared his scanty fare.
After this he supervised the administrative and financial duties in connexion with the French army which occupied the principal fortresses of Prussia, and was one of the chief agents through whom Napoleon pressed hard on that land.
He created it and preached it; he organized it, dominated it, and constantly supervised it.
The Greek department of the college has supervised since 1895 the public presentation nearly every year of an English version of a Greek play.
The imperial bank (Reichsbank), supervised by a committee of four under the presidency of the imperial chancellor, who is a fifth and permanent member of such committee.
Civil questions arising from the institution of domestic slavery remained justiciable by the native courts; which in this matter were very carefully supervised by the British administration.
The judicial systems applicable solely to Egyptians are supervised by the ministry of justice, to which has been attached since 1890 a British judicial adviser.
The well-educated Egyptian officer, with his natural aptitude for figures, does subordinate regimental routine carefully, and works well when supervised by men of stronger character.
These figures do not include the Imperial Service troops, consisting of cavalry, infantry and transport corps, about 18,000 in all, which are paid and officered by the native states furnishing them, though supervised by British inspectors.
For the successf ul treatment of morphinism, complete isolation of the patient is necessary in a place where he is supervised so that he can obtain no morphine.
The creditor has the right of claiming the aid of the law against the defaulting municipality; and the amounts, the terms, and the time of duration of local debt are supervised in order to prevent injustice to particular persons or improvidence with regard to the revenue and property of the local units.
The vacations which he enjoyed as a schoolmaster left him time for study and travel, and during these years he supervised 'the publication of three further editions of the Britannia.
Garnet supervised the Jesuit mission for eighteen years with conspicuous success.
Prisoners released upon parole are carefully supervised by state agents.
The board has also power of visitation and inspection over the Wisconsin Veterans' Home at Waupaca, founded in 1887 by the state department of the Grand Army of the Republic. In the state's treatment of the insane, chronic cases are separated and sent to the county asylums. The labour of convicts in the state prison is leased; until 1878 the state itself supervised manufacturing in the prison; then for twenty-five years the convicts were employed in making shoes for a Chicago firm; and since 1903 the state has received 65 cents a day for the labour of each convict, and at least 300 convicts are employed in the manufacture of socks and stockings, from which in1906-1908(two years) the income to the state was $156,890.
Students will be supervised by experienced academics from the School and will have a partnership with the host organization throughout the year.
Under 18's may not control the boat unless supervised by an adult.
In Roger's absence, Dave took over control of erecting the area banner and flag whilst Ant supervised putting up the gazebo.
During the following twenty-four hours a massive counterforce was assembled and officers from General Headquarters personally supervised the annihilation of the disturbances.
Under some circumstances, it is possible to write a longer, intensively supervised, dissertation.
Single Honors students undertake a supervised dissertation on a topic of their own choice.
Has supervised doctoral research on organizational culture and levels of performance, and has supervised postgraduate dissertations in her areas of research.
Mr. Dolby, C.E., has advised on the mechanical engineering throughout, and has supervised the erection of the boilers and machinery.
We can offer advice and support, risk assessment (including ergonomics and pregnancy ), health surveillance and supervised return to work programs.
A controlled study of the effects of a supervised cardiovascular fitness training program on the manifestations of primary fibromyalgia.
The event was supervised by the environmental regeneration charity groundwork on behalf of the East London Business Alliance.
Finally, in c1960, Sebastian Comper supervised a further overall enlargement resulting in a church of quite major proportions.
These are peer-led, each cell leader being supervised by an adult mentor.
The use of Dioralyte Relief in patients with these conditions should be supervised by a physician.
It is possible for students to spend the third year on a supervised work placement within a relevant sector of the computer industry.
They need to be restricted in exercise so no running with young children, only a very short supervised playtime with them.