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The Collaborative International Dictionary
babysitter

babysitter \babysitter\, baby-sitter \baby-sitter\n. A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home.

Syn: sitter

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
babysitter

also baby-sitter, 1914, from baby (n.) + agent noun from sit (v.). Short form sitter is attested from 1937.

Wiktionary
babysitter

n. A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their guardians.

WordNet
babysitter

n : a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home [syn: baby-sitter, sitter]

Wikipedia
Babysitter (disambiguation)

A babysitter is one who temporarily cares for a child.

Babysitter or babysitting may also refer to:

Babysitter (TV series)

Babysitter is a four-episode Korean drama, airing on KBS2 from March 14, 2016, starring Shin Yoon-joo, Kim Min-joon and Cho Yeo-jeong.

Usage examples of "babysitter".

Emily and Celeste and half the police force and their wives, John had more babysitters than he wanted.

Jupiter Prime got very upset when their glorified babysitters spilled coffee on expensive electronics.

There are orchid babysitters and orchid doctors and orchid groomers and orchid boarding houses and orchid heirs designated in wills.

Her father and his new wife had two children, and Hazel had liked them, whilst realising that she had become a convenient unpaid babysitter when she stayed with them.

The house was spotless when she returned, and the babysitter was curled up on the sofa.

If she went to jail who was he going to get as a steady, dependable babysitter in California?

He felt himself falling into the leaves, which seemed suddenly like the ground in the Candyland game he played with his babysitter until he outgrew it.

She was a local girl, former babysitter to James and Mary Catherine, had worked in Peoria as a nurse for some years, and was now back home in Tuscola, working as a babysitter again.

She sat in some cement outside Grumann's Chinese Theater, played a bit part in a picture called Ninja Babysitters, did a guest spot on a game show, won ten thousand-dollars, went to bed with the host and two contestants, and was on a plane for Paris before she'd been in town forty-eight hours.

One morning, babysitting for a little girl who had caught the chicken pox, sitting by her as she lay thoughtlessly in a lukewarm oatmeal bath, stoically flicking the water with her finger and occasionally moaning like a small animal, he felt a sudden gust of happiness sweep through him, simply because he was the old widower of the neighbourhood, and people used him as a babysitter.

Most of the sites encouraged homeowners to be paranoid: about their babysitters, their housecleaners, or anyone coming within twenty feet of their front door.

It brought back a long lost memory of a fifth-grade babysitter who had watched him after school while his mother worked.

And one rental company, the Arthur Treacher Service System, advertises that it will rent maids, chauffeurs, butlers, cooks, handymen, babysitters, practical nurses, plumbers, electricians and other home service people.

Claud is the vice-president of the Babysitters Club and probably the trendiest, coolest kid in all of Stoneybrook Middle School.