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Meaning of baby-sitting

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

baby-sitting

verb

Definitions

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

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

    Example: He left me to baby-sit the new guy while he got some work done.

noun

Definitions

  1. The work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents.