babysitting
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See also: baby-sitting and baby sitting
English
Alternative forms
Verb
babysitting
- present participle and gerund of babysit
Noun
babysitting (usually uncountable, plural babysittings)
- The work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents or guardians.
- Synonym: daycare
- Hypernym: childminding
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- But some have no parents, or none to speak of, and are living with a grandmother or uncle or married sister or sister who's not married but has three tots of her own to look after, or this unruly student's helping her to take care of them with babysitting or a paying after-school job.
Derived terms
Translations
work of a babysitter
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Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English babysitting.
Noun
babysitting c (singular definite babysittingen, not used in plural form)
- The care of children in the temporary absence of their parents, the work of a babysitter, babysitting.
Inflection
Declension of babysitting
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| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | babysitting | babysittingen |
| genitive | babysittings | babysittingens |