babysit
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbeɪbiː.sɪt/
babysit (babysits, present participle babysitting; past babysat, past participle babysat)
- To 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.
- We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.
- (transitive, informal) To 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.
- 2016, Christopher Vasey, Nazi Intelligence Operations in Non-Occupied Territories (page 175)
- It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]
- French: faire du baby-sitting
- German: babysitten
- Italian: fare da babysitter
- Portuguese: pajear
- Russian: ня́ньчиться
- Spanish: cuidar de los niños, hacer de canguro
- Russian: ня́ньчиться
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