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What (who) is Babysitting - definition

TEMPORARILY CARING FOR A CHILD

Babysitter; Baby-sitter; Baby sitter; Baby-sitting; Baby-sit; Babysit; Baby sitting; Babysitters; Babysat

babysitting

Babysitting

Babysitting is temporarily caring for a child. Babysitting can be a paid job for all ages; however, it is best known as a temporary activity for early teenagers who are not yet eligible for employment in the general economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babysitting

babysit

(babysits, babysitting, babysat)

If you babysit for someone or babysit their children, you look after their children while they are out.

I promised to babysit for Mrs Plunkett...

You can take it in turns to babysit...

She had been babysitting him and his four-year-old sister.

VERB: V for n, V, V n

• babysitter (babysitters)

It can be difficult to find a good babysitter.

N-COUNT

• babysitting

Would you like me to do any babysitting?

N-UNCOUNT

Wikipedia

Babysitting

Babysitting is temporarily caring for a child. Babysitting can be a paid job for all ages; however, it is best known as a temporary activity for early teenagers who are not yet eligible for employment in the general economy. It provides autonomy from parental control and dispensable income, as well as an introduction to the techniques of childcare. It emerged as a social role for teenagers in the 1920s, and became especially important in suburban America in the 1950s and 1960s, when small children were abundant. It stimulated an outpouring of folk culture in the form of urban legends, pulp novels, and horror films.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babysitting

Examples of use of Babysitting

1. "We‘d say, ‘We‘re not bodyguarding; we‘re babysitting.‘ But we were babysitting Britney, as well as her kids.

2. She spends much of her time babysitting her siblings.

3. Perfect for security, not to mention free babysitting.

4. Sometimes, the care is more about babysitting than education.

5. They were babysitting his two–year–old nephew, Reuben.