Superintend Definition

so͝opər-ĭn-tĕnd, so͝oprĭn-
superintended, superintending, superintends
verb
superintended, superintending, superintends
To act as superintendent of; direct; supervise; manage.
Webster's New World

To administer the affairs of something or someone.

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Origin of Superintend

  • Late Latin superintendere Latin super- super- Latin intendere to direct one's attention to intend

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin superintendere

    From Wiktionary

Superintend Sentence Examples

  • American experts are frequently employed to superintend the estates and factories.

  • Other police officers of the central brigades superintend the street traffic.

  • Her father had no leisure to devote to her training, and her mother was too illiterate to superintend her studies.

  • He built a house on Odiorne's Point overlooking Little Harbor, and, although he removed to an island in Boston Harbor in 1626, he may have continued to superintend the business of the company .until the expiration of the five-year term.

  • His main purpose in visiting Paris was to superintend the transcription of the correspondence of Barillon, which he needed for his proposed life of James II.

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