BABYSIT Definition & Meaning

babysit

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[ bey-bee-sit ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

babysat, babysitting.

to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.

verb (used with object)

babysat, babysitting.

to take watchful responsibility for (a child):
We're looking for someone to babysit the kids in the evening.
to take watchful responsibility for; tend:
It will be necessary for someone to babysit the machine until it is running properly.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of babysit¹

First recorded in 1945–50

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"I used to babysit and take her to school, and pick her up at times when her parents were working. She was very joyful, very funny, very cheeky. She was just a bundle of joy."

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Sip at sunset In my hypothetical Sunday, my in-laws are coming over to babysit, and they will be babysitting while we get ready.

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I would babysit at the time, and all the money from babysitting would go into this.

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“If you wouldn’t hire somebody to babysit your kids, then you shouldn’t make that guy the president of the United States,” she added.

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But the couple first meet in the show’s second season when, through a miscommunication, they are both asked to babysit.

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