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# superintend

«superintend» in Mova's school dictionary: **to watch over and manage a job or people, making sure it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (superintends, superintended, superintending)

### meaning for a pupil

To superintend is to watch over and manage a job or people, making sure it is done properly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/superintend/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a mother runs the household, or a guide oversees the work

### examples

- The mother superintended the household. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/superintend/#x1)
- Mr Brown superintended the building work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/superintend/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «superintend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/superintend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.