Babysitting

verb

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.verbTo watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.

"My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night."

2.verbTo watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.

"He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done."

3.nounThe work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents.

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