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What (who) is Superintend - definition
superintend
(superintends, superintending, superintended)
If you superintend something, you have responsibility for ensuring that it is carried out properly. (FORMAL)
During the interval, Linton superintended a prize draw.
VERB: V n
superintend
¦ verb act as superintendent of.
Derivatives
superintendence noun
superintendency noun
Origin
C17 (earlier (C16) as superintendent): from eccles. L. superintendere, translating Gk episkopein.
superintend
v. a.
Supervise, oversee, overlook, direct, conduct, manage, control, administer have charge of, have the direction of, have the oversight of, preside over.
Examples of use of Superintend
1. I mean, appellate judges don‘t go about to set policy in America, they don‘t go out to supervise and superintend the legislative and executive branches; they decide cases that come before them.
2. "The Constitution, by contrast, provides the courts with relatively few tools to superintend military and foreign policy decisions, especially during wartime," the attorney general told a conference on the judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center.
3. The Maritime Administration of the DPRK, an organization of the country to superintend and control the whole field of the maritime work, is undertaking a strict inspection of all the ships to load and unload internationally according to the prior–to–sailing inspection system.