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What (who) is babysit - definition

TEMPORARILY CARING FOR A CHILD
Babysitter; Baby-sitter; Baby sitter; Baby-sitting; Baby-sit; Babysit; Baby sitting; Babysitters; Babysat
  • 1895 painting of a nurse reading to a little girl
  • An episode of ''[[About Safety]]'', a 1970s educational children's show, on the topic of babysitting

babysit         
¦ verb (babysits, babysitting; past and past participle babysat) look after a child or children while the parents are out.
Derivatives
babysitter noun
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
babysitting         

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.

Examples of use of babysit
1. The suspect, a friend of the families of the two girls, would occasionally babysit for them.
2. To his interviewers, Olmert said it wasn‘t his job to babysit the army.
3. "Cynthia just wasn‘t on my mind because she wasn‘t my problem – I had never said I would babysit.
4. Next, they will turn their anger toward the army commanders and demand they also babysit the children.
5. As they already have four children of their own, the offer to babysit D seems almost recklessly generous.