see to sth/sb
formal or old-fashioned— phrasal verb with see uk/siː/us/siː/verb present participle seeing, past tense saw, past participle seen
B2 to deal with a person or task that needs to be dealt with or is waiting to be dealt with:
"These letters need posting." "I'll see to them later."
Mrs Chapman asked for some help with the orders - could you see to it?
[ + that ] Please see to it that no one comes in without identification.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dealing with things or people
- attend to sb/sth
- beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
- come up against sth
- come/get to grips with sth idiom
- confront
- cut
- firefighting
- get sth in
- inherit
- jump-start
- negotiate
- overcome
- process
- reckon
- reckon with sb/sth
- see about sth
- set about sth
- sort
- turn
- weather
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