The word "babysitter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who is paid to look after a child or children for a short period of time, usually in exchange for money. Example sentence: We need to find someone reliable who can be our babysitter this weekend.
A babysitter took her, aged four, to an audition for a commercial.
"And I understand why Frank would say that, because you have a responsibility to people who have got a babysitter on a Friday night in a way that a painter doesn't.
So Ms Vega must, perversely, hire a babysitter while she is working.
It concerns a seven-year-old boy called Che, the son of radical activists who are wanted by the FBI, and his former babysitter, Dial (short for dialectic).
Like most nannies, though, the virtual babysitter will work for only eight hours or so at a stretch.
Even Mr Kennedy's chief asset, his magic surname, is taking a beating: the Boston Globe has accused Michael Kennedy, who was expected to run his brother Joe's campaign, of re-enacting "Lolita" with a 14-year-old babysitter.
With global warming and no economic alternative to scarce petrol, it may not be feasible to go on living 20km away from everything school, work, babysitter, Starbucks.In any event, other trends suggest that for every Timmy Willie, there is a Johnny Town-Mouse: many people like urban life and want to go on living in a city, particularly the centre.
Yet care in centres is typically dearer than care in the home of a babysitter or a childminder— and much dearer in the case of babies.
Mothers of invention One answer is to employ a babysitter.
WHEN Michael Tilson Thomas was a boy growing up in Los Angeles, the young Frank Gehry sometimes acted as his babysitter.
Behind its unpromising title—"Why fewer middle-aged gun-deer hunters bought licences in 2010 and 2011 lurks a novella's worth of familial angst and male soul-searching.A divorced father sees his children every other weekend: he is not about to park them with a babysitter just to go hunting.
