Halle Berry, the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, broke her silence about the Oscar diversity controversy today.
Oversaw is defined as to have watched over or directed something. An example of oversaw is to have watched a group of team members complete their project yesterday. verb.
1550s, originally an ecclesiastical word meaning bishop or minister who supervises churches within a district (a loan-translation of Greek episkopos overseer), from Medieval Latin superintendentem (nominative superintendens), from present participle of Late Latin superintendere oversee, from Latin super above (see super-) + intendere turn one's attention, direct (see intend).