Babysit

//ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt// verb, slang

Definitions

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

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

  2. 2
    work or act as a baby-sitter wordnet
  3. 3
    To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen. informal, transitive

    "The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it."

  4. 4
    take watchful responsibility for wordnet
  5. 5
    To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much. informal, transitive

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

Etymology

Back-formation from babysitter.

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