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

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Examples

  • The sociopath is going to be offline for a day or so while she housesits for a friend and takes care of her cats.

    In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste 2009

  • The cats are gradually forgiving me for callously abandoning them with the friend who housesits for us and whom they've known for a few years now and see every week.

    December 11th, 2004 handworn 2004

  • (Ben Stiller), who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother.

    indieWIRE News 2010

  • (Ben Stiller), who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother.

    indieWIRE News 2010

  • (Ben Stiller), who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother.

    indieWIRE News 2010

  • (Ben Stiller), who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother.

    indieWIRE News 2010

  • Lane plays an artist (well, she makes wooden boxes) turned ritzy suburban housewife who housesits a pal's inn on the outer banks for a weekend, just to get away and think about her estranged husband's offer to come home.

    Augusta Free Press 2008

  • Fresh out of the hospital, Roger housesits for his brother and must navigate the world he hasn’t experienced in a long time.

    Review: Greenberg Glenn Dunks 2010

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