superintend
IPA: supɝʌntˈɛnd
verb
- To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
- To administer the affairs of something or someone.
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Examples of "superintend" in Sentences
- He was in charge of superintendence.
- Who is in charge of this superintendence
- The commanding officer is the Superintendent.
- Dr. Jastremski assumed superintendence in 1885.
- He superintended the rebuilding of the building.
- The Superintendence of Banks is the regulatory body.
- Eric Fredrickson is the superintendent of the district.
- He was hired as the superintendent of the construction.
- Sabine was appointed to superintend the entire operation.
- The Police Chief of the district is the Superintendent of Police.
- I find out where the stories are, and advise, and, in short, superintend.
- Sometimes, given the region it falls to us to superintend, that is not possible.
- Carlos got a plane to fly to Algeria, whose government is shown to superintend the payment of $20m of ransom money from the Saudis for Yamani's safety.
- Nonetheless, that is his basic message in this book: the U.S. and China should be friends, should superintend a benign and stable world order, cannot afford to be driven into conflict by their differences, etc. etc.
- True, we cannot always pay that attention to former associates, which we may wish; but the little community which we superintend is quite as important an object; and certainly renders us more beneficial to the public.
- Many are also dishonest, asserting that competition that happens to come from outside of some ultimately arbitrary geo-political border is harmful to society at large -- asserting that a policy of preventing consumers from taking advantage of the best deals that consumers find, as consumers themselves judge these deals, harms society and that permitting politicians to superintend the buying practices of consumers will somehow make things better.