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babysit
verb
To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
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He was my next door neighbour as I was growing up and his mum used to babysit me and my mum used to babysit him.
After all, someone needs to sweep, cook, chauffeur, launder and babysit for the rich.In wealthier countries, the rich pay dearly for a short commute; in India's cities, the poor cannot afford a long one.
She had fallen in love with them, transferring her affections from sea sponges, when she had to babysit a few in the lab at Yale.
When flying to more unusual destinations, an ICE agent will babysit the deportee on a commercial flight.This is a remarkable feat of logistics.
They would let families use their tax credits to pay grandparents to babysit.
She can't get home from work in time to collect her polite and precocious son from school, so Vincent grudgingly agrees to babysit.
Such individuals will also babysit the pups, an activity that involves measurable sacrifice, to the extent of 1-2% of body weight for each day's duty.
But it was his volatile private life that kept him in the headlines until he drank himself to death in 2005.Celia Walden, now an established journalist and author, witnessed the final months of Best's decline when she was sent to "babysit" him as a junior reporter for the Mail on Sunday.
He has a beard so reliable you'd let it babysit your child.
Hatt had been asked by the boy's father to babysit on six or seven occasions, Swindon Crown Court court heard.
Last year, the senior civil servant in charge of the Australian economy, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry, triggered a political row when he took five weeks' leave to help babysit the Epping colony.
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