The Collaborative International Dictionary
babysitter \babysitter\, baby-sitter \baby-sitter\n. A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home.
Syn: sitter
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of babysitter English)
WordNet
n : a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home [syn: babysitter, sitter]
Usage examples of "baby-sitter".
She gathered her take-home work, baby-sitter and child-care lists and stuffed everything into her briefcase.
Hire a baby-sitter, and conduct business by fax and phone until the police do something.
By the time maternity leave was over they had clearly needed her at the office, and so she had started working again, sharing the care of Nick with Charlie and some baby-sitters, and eventually a day-care center in a building in Bethesda, near the Metro stop.
He had known from the time he got home on the night of the cutover and questioned Wayne and the baby-sitter that someone else made the call.
Originally, her plan was to take her baby-sitters home and then clean up her house for the party, but after a phone call she instead asked the sitters, two young girls, if they could stay while she went out to get fireworks.
They had proven ideal baby-sitters and in this they had an economic value and were the more readily accepted.
In fact, as a Baby-sitters Club member, I consider it one of the most important things in my life (more about the BSC later).
Kristy insists that we also keep the Baby-sitters Club Notebook, in which each of us has to write up every single sitting job we do.
And how, pray, do you attach a team of baby-sitters to a long-distance Continental lorry driver?
Periodically, there are stories about a baby-sitter who was tripping on LSD and cooked the baby in the microwave oven.
Sanforth was still trying mightily to shoo out the remaining newsmen, and the unfortunate assistant chief of protocol, deserted by his boss, was jittering like a nervous baby-sitter in his attempt to play musical chairs with too few chairs and too many notables, They continued to come in and Jubal concluded that Douglas had never intended to convene this public meeting earlier than eleven o'clock, and that everyone else had been so informed-the earlier hour given Jubal was to permit the private preconference that Douglas had demanded and that Jubal had refused.
What happens usually is that a couple hires a hippie baby-sitter who proceeds to get stoned on acid, marijuana, or sometimes even scotch.
She had been five or six, and the baby-sitter had canceled because she'd been suffering from stomach flu.