Superviseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doublet of survey.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsuː.pə.vaɪz/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈsu.pɚˌvaɪz/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈsʉː.pə.vɑez/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsʉː.pə.vaɪz/, [ˈsʉː.pə.vɑe̯z]

動詞

supervise (third-person singular simple present supervises, present participle supervising, simple past and past participle supervised)

1. (transitive) To oversee or direct (a task or organization).

   Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.

   • 1895, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, The Valley of Kashmir, page 3:

     Strong personal government is, I believe, the only form of government possible in Kashmir for many years to come, but it is difficult for the Maharajas to supervise the administration of the valley when they are away in their winter capital Jammu.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.

   • 1934, Tung Chi Lin, Chinese Expansion to the Northeast: Methods and Mechanisms‎, University of California, →OCLC, page 37:

     While both the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula were under the jurisdiction of Ho-pei Province, a Protectorate of An-tung was established at P'ing-jang to supervise the Peninsular states and two High Commanders were stationed at You-chou and P'ing-lu […]

   • 1976, United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies, Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, page 256:

     […] grievability-arbitrability cases; supervises the conduct of representation elections; and holds hearings as  […]

   • 2012, Kathryn M. Johnson, The Insider's Guide to Supervising Government Employees‎:

     I had learned a lot about supervising by observing other supervisors—the good things and the not-so-good things they did.

   • 2017, David I. Ben-Tovim, Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking, →ISBN:

     The knowledge worker may have a supervisor, but he or she is never supervised in the same way that a manual or process worker is supervised.

2. (intransitive) To oversee a task, organization, etc.; to provide supervision; to act as a supervisor.
   • 2022 August 1, Melissa Davey, “NSW town’s pop-up Covid vaccine clinic almost called off because of ‘ridiculous’ Medicare rule”, in The Guardian‎:

     Under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, doctors can’t claim payment from the government for a Covid-19 vaccination provided in their clinic by a nurse, unless a GP is on the premises to supervise.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV. ii. 120:

     Let me supervise the canzonet.

   • 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:

     If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.

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