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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To take care of a child or children in the absence of a parent or guardian.
  2. v. To take care of or watch over someone or something needing attention or guidance.
  3. v. To provide care for (a child) in the absence of a parent or guardian.
  4. v. To watch over or tend: baby-sat the neighbor's plants for a week.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
  2. v. To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. act as a baby-sitter.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. take watchful responsibility for
  2. v. work or act as a baby-sitter

Etymologies

  1. Compound of baby + sit. (Wiktionary)

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