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of, substitute for: The 286 computers have been superseded by
386 models.
supervise v. oversee, overlook, watch (over), manage, run, control,
superintend, govern, direct, be in or have charge (of), handle,
keep an eye on, administer: They are moving you up to supervise
the production department.
supervisor
n. overseer, foreman, manager, controller, superintendent,
superior, governor, director, boss, chief, head, administrator:
As supervisor, you are responsible for the work done in your
department.
supervisory
adj. managerial, administrative, executive: Do you think that
Len is ready for supervisory responsibilities?
supine adj. 1 flat (on one's back), lying (down), prostrate,
recumbent, Formal or technical procumbent, accumbent, decumbent:
When I found him, he was supine, staring up at the stars. 2
indolent, lazy, lethargic, idle, listless, indifferent,
apathetic, unconcerned, uninterested, torpid, languid,
languorous, sluggish, slothful, phlegmatic, lymphatic,
lackadaisical, inert, inactive, passive, motionless, inanimate,
spiritless, abject: During the entire crisis, the town council
was completely supine and uncaring.
supplant v. replace, displace, oust, turn out, eject, remove, expel,
dismiss, unseat, supersede, substitute, exchange: The council
should be supplanted by a new group more sympathetic to the
needs of the people.
supple adj. 1 flexible, flexile, pliant, bendable, elastic, resilient,
pliable, tractile, fictile: He made a rug-beater out of some
supple lengths of bamboo. 2 willowy, lithe, limber, nimble,
pliant, lissom or lissome, graceful, athletic: She has the
supple body of a dancer. 3 tractable, compliant, yielding,
accommodating, obliging, complaisant, acquiescent, submissive,
unresistant, unresisting, servile, obsequious, ingratiating,
fawning, toadying: With supple words the miserable sycophant
wormed his way into father's confidence.