babysitter
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtər/
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niñero
- And his flight was late, so she called to see if I could pick up my little brother from the babysitter's house.
- hire a babysitter
- parents and babysitters
- part-time babysitter
She chose a male babysitter for a babysitting agency.
- She chose a male babysitter for a babysitting agency.
- Imagine that we're looking at the demand for babysitters and the price of movies goes up.
- And his five year old son said, Oh no, can't the babysitter take us?
- Well, our babysitter filmed the kids as their reaction to it.
- So now I have a babysitter, you know, to take this, you know, care of this.
- And he's like, no, but then they couldn't find a babysitter.
- You could break down like, oh, I see why Mom always had a babysitter.
- If you can afford French Open finals tickets, you can afford a babysitter.
- But like, I just didn't think about like my babysitter's family listening.
- And she said, well, I'm so angry that this babysitter was choosing me.
Examples
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Well, I paid the babysitter, even though she didn't want me to.
Fiction book (1991) -
Imagine that we're looking at the demand for babysitters and the price of movies goes up.
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I am talking to my babysitter about where dinner is.
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No, our babysitter is very good, too.
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Well, it's late and I have to let my babysitter get home.
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I need to call my babysitter.
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Harry, this is James, the babysitter.
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"I was just telling you why I'd be a good babysitter for your kids."
Fiction book (1992) -
It must be just so nice to live with a built in babysitter.
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Last Saturday night, Anne and I got a babysitter and met some friends at the Dublin Pub.
Synonyms
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A person who looks after children at home while their parents are out
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A person parents pay to look after children when they are away
Compounds
A situation that checks how someone cares for children, for example in an emergency
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word babysitter is simply baby + sitter, with sitter meaning someone who 'sits' with or stays near another person. So a babysitter is someone who stays with and looks after a child while the parents are away for a short time.