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present participle of supervise.

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supervising

ADJECTIVE

administrative

Synonyms

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bureaucratic departmental governmental legislative managerial organizational policy-making regulatory supervisory

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authoritative central commanding controlling deciding decisive directing directive directorial executive governing in charge in control jurisdictional official presiding regulative ruling superintending

ADJECTIVE

controlling

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governing regulating

WEAK

predominant

ADJECTIVE

managerial

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bureaucratic commanding directorial governmental legislative ministerial organizational policy-making regulatory supervisory

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authoritative central controlling deciding decisive departmental directing directive executive governing in charge in control jurisdictional official presiding regulative ruling superintending

ADJECTIVE

managing

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administering admonishing advising controlling executing governing guiding handling husbanding inspecting leading operating organizing overseeing piloting regulating steering superintending

Antonyms

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subordinate

ADJECTIVE

operating

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performing running

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accomplishing administering conducting contriving determining directing driving executing finishing fulfilling guiding maintaining managing manipulating moving ordering practicing regulating revolving serving spinning sustaining transacting turning using wielding

WEAK

at work

ADJECTIVE

supervisory

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bureaucratic departmental governmental legislative managerial ministerial organizational policy-making regulatory

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NOUN

conservation

Synonyms

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care conservancy control maintenance management protection supervision

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attention custody economy governing guardianship keeping safekeeping salvation saving stewardship storage sustentation upkeep

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cherishing conserving directing guarding managing preserval preserving protecting safeguarding

Antonyms

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ignorance neglect

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negligence

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destruction spending squandering waste

Example Sentences

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She continued that work for three summers before supervising the excavation of a late Roman site this year.

From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026

Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2026

The panel heard evidence from two psychologists, a psychiatrist, the prison offender manager responsible for supervising him and the community offender manager who would be responsible for supervising him in the community.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

“They literally fell head over heels flat into an ongoing operation that we had,” said Robert Zachariasiewicz, the supervising DEA agent who is now at corporate intelligence firm Elicius.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

One day, while he was supervising us at the quarry, I was working next to Fikile Bam.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

supervising

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