babysit

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.

   My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.

2. verb To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen.

   The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it.

3. verb To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much.

   He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.

Similar words

baby-sit occupy monitor keeping retain keep watch bear petsit catsit

Often followed by

for the her and me a while with my

Word family

babysat babysits babysitter babysitters babysitting