babysitting
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtɪŋ/
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cuidado de niños
- When I was thirteen, I started babysitting for my neighbors to save for a bike.
- a babysitting service
- such as babysitting
Maybe you could offer an extra babysitting service in the afternoon.
- Maybe you could offer an extra babysitting service in the afternoon.
- She chose a male babysitter for a babysitting agency.
- I was like dog walking, house sitting, babysitting.
- Is it something with her babysitting job?
- So I was just the other day, I was assigned to a sort of a, a little babysitting
Examples
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Part-time jobs or babysitting siblings may interfere with the students' ability to complete their assignments.
Academic text (2010) -
I had to burn all my babysitting money to throw this party, but it's so worth it.
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Maybe you could offer an extra babysitting service in the afternoon.
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I heard you got stuck with babysitting duty this year.
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Did you buy it with your babysitting money?
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I have a babysitting job.
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She said I can start the babysitting job next week.
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You're on babysitting duty the rest of the day.
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My camp-counselor experiences and leadership roles with children, such as babysitting and church, really helped prepare me.
Academic text (2007) -
Liza had read two books from the library on babysitting and was eager to put herself to the test.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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1.9
Looking after children by someone other than their parents, often for pay
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Looking after children by people who are paid
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Babysitting comes from baby and sit, where sit here means 'stay with and look after', like in house-sit. So babysitting literally means 'staying with a baby' for a short time, which explains why it means taking care of children while their parents are away.