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Babysit
//ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt// verb, slang
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Verb
- 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 work or act as a baby-sitter wordnet
- 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 take watchful responsibility for wordnet
- 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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