babysitting
See also: baby-sitting and baby sitting
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
babysitting
- present participle and gerund of babysit
Noun edit
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
- 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 edit
Translations edit
work of a babysitter
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English babysitting.
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of babysitting
common gender |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | babysitting | babysittingen |
genitive | babysittings | babysittingens |