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The Collaborative International Dictionary
baby-sit

baby-sit \baby-sit\ v. act as a baby-sitter

Syn: babysit, sit

Wiktionary
baby-sit

vb. 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.

WordNet
baby-sit
  1. v : work or act as a baby-sitter; "I cannot baby-sit tonight; I have too much homework to do" [syn: sit]

  2. [also: baby-sitting, baby-sat]

Usage examples of "baby-sit".

Lacone wants me to baby-sit those chops for a while, earn him a break on his insurance rates.

Her heart jumped a little at the thought that maybe a neighbor was dropping by to say hello and welcome them, maybe a Welcome Wagon lady with all kinds of goodies and coupons and baby-sitting advice.

Normally she did not mind, but tonight she had promised to baby-sit across the street for Liz Marcus so she could go to the Kol Nidre service.

Louise, and there was Cleon Ferris, black and gay and shorter than I am, who did lighting for concerts and musicals, and used to baby-sit me all the time.

I mean, we didn't play office when I baby-sat, but I'm sure Caitlin would like that game.

None of us has baby-sat for them before, because Logan always does it.

She had baby-sat in New York, and she wanted to meet people in Stoneybrook.

I love baby-sitting for my little brothers and sisters (there are four of them all together - I'll explain that in a minute), but sometimes things can get touchy.

And she spends a lot of her baby-sitting money on the accessories - belts, jewelry, and tons of stuff for her hair - ribbons, bows, funky dips, beads.

And happy baby-sitting charges mean happy parents who are apt to call the BSC again with more jobs!

She had never known if that was true, but she didn't want to find out while she was baby-sitting and have to explain to the Hobarts that their sons had done a three-sixty on the tire.

I knew she wasn't baby-sitting that afternoon, and it's nice to have a chance to spend time with my old friends.

MARTIN did a lot of baby-sitting when she was growing up in Princeton, New Jersey.

Now her favorite baby-sitting charge is her cat, Mouse, who lives with her in her Manhattan apartment.

Kristy's little brother, David Michael, was six then, and Kristy and her two older brothers, Sam and Charlie (they're in high school), were responsible for baby-sitting for him most of the time, since Mrs.