babysitting
See also: baby-sitting and baby sitting
English
editAlternative forms
editVerb
editbabysitting
- present participle and gerund of babysit
Noun
editbabysitting (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
- 2013, Stephen Dixon, 30 Pieces of a Novel, →ISBN:
- 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
editTranslations
editwork of a babysitter
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Danish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English babysitting.
Noun
editbabysitting 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
editDeclension of babysitting
common gender |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | babysitting | babysittingen |
genitive | babysittings | babysittingens |