babysit
IPA: bˈeɪbisɪt
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
- (transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.
baby-sit
IPA: bˈeɪbisɪt
verb
- Alternative spelling of babysit [(transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.]
Examples of "babysit" in Sentences
Examples of "baby-sit" in Sentences
- Stop letting the TV and the internet baby-sit and spend time with their children.
- Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.
- "These officers were taken away from their emergency duties to baby-sit this car."
- She later testified that she had intended to go to the Short Stop with Jones and King but could not get anyone to baby-sit for her.
- In foreign policy, he has Obama's specific mandate to monitor the wind-down of the American troop involvement in Iraq and to baby-sit its tortuous journey to political stability.
- You can ask Siri anything—what the weather's going to be, what the meaning of life is (chocolate), whether Siri can baby-sit the kids while you go dancing at the club (she can—she's amazing!)
- Advocates are hoping the push for more rights for domestic servants will spread to other unskilled migrants, as some countries grow increasingly reliant on imported cheap labor to baby-sit for their children, staff their factories and build their skyscrapers.