babysit

verbB1

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verb

V_es/s

babysits

V_ing/Gerund

babysitting

V_ed/pp

babysatbabysitted

1.
(ambitransitive)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.
We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.
Đồng nghĩa: childsit
2.
(informal, transitive)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.
(informal, transitive)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.
Đồng nghĩa: coddle

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

childsitcoddle

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birdysitbabysittercatsitdogsithousesit

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babysitter.