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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baby-sit.

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Examples

  • Ms. Sheffield, who baby-sits Nina nearly every weekday, is what's known as an artist baby sitter, or "artisitter."

    When the Sitter's an Artist Laura Hedli 2011

  • He seized on a cotton-candy script by William Peter Blatty, who would become best known as the author of The Exorcist, called The Babysitter, aka Promise Her Anything, in which he plays a bachelor who baby-sits for his neighbor, a single mother Caron, in order to date her.

    STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

  • Because the mother-in-law already baby-sits their 9-year-old son, she didn't want the extra responsibility of another child.

    All in the Family 2009

  • Unlike her peers, she can't work legally, so Nancy tutors and baby-sits for cash to pay her tuition at UCLA.

    CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2009 2009

  • But some in her care — namely 11 Pomeranians, two toy poodles and a young neighbor girl whom she baby-sits — appear to her all too eager to jump the ditch and roam wild across Canada.

    Living on the Edge 2007

  • "I don't know what they thought two older women were going to do," says Earlene, 66, who baby-sits Anna and Chloe nearly every day.

    She's Not Baby Jessica Anymore 2008

  • My daughter ` s 12, and she baby-sits, and you don ` t ever leave a child alone, period.

    CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007 2007

  • When she baby-sits for my 2-year-old, she always knows to ask me if it's all right for her to give my daughter "a little treat," usually a cookie or a biscuit.

    American Beat: Let's Hear It For A Fat Tax 2007

  • This rule exempts wages paid to the typical teenage high-school student who baby-sits for the neighbors on a casual basis.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • This rule exempts wages paid to the typical teenage high-school student who baby-sits for the neighbors on a casual basis.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

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