The word 'sitter' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to someone who takes care of another person or group of people, often for a short period of time. This can include caring for children, pets, or even houses. Example: Jenny hired a babysitter to watch her children while she went out for the evening.
These poor people's bad luck was my comedy gold, as I spent a very merry evening repeating the phrase, "So, what you're saying is… Mos def-initely won't be coming?" The Sunday was all about the hamam, so we left our resentful-looking baby with a very experienced sitter for the day.
She enjoyed it when there was a "spark" with the sitter, but it was by no means necessary for her to produce startling results.
As she said herself, "For that second when I look through the lens I absolutely love the sitter.
Vets' bills, food bills and 30 quid for a sitter every time I needed to go into London.
But knowing that the painter was a black freedman prompts one to speculate about the relationship between the solidly respectable sitter and the socially marginal man who immortalised him.
In her view the work was a collaboration between two 20th-century geniuses: the artist and his sitter.
Its founder, Jasmine Allen, has six employees who do most of the dirty work and a smart new office in a tech hub in Birmingham.Shelly Haines, a former teacher and pet baby-sitter in Miami, runs a firm called "Savvy Shelly" that caters to especially demanding customers.
In internet campaign videos he plays comical roles: the schoolteacher who must maintain order in the classroom and the "Bibi-sitter" who keeps the children safe.
Even for French politicians, those are divisive ideas, especially for that majority who, when it comes to what ex-President George Bush once called "the vision thing", would prefer to sit on the fence.This week's fence-sitter is President Jacques Chirac.
The most recent concerned several books designed for children of primary-school age, bearing such titles as "Jean has two Mummies", "Daddy wears a dress", and "Everybody naked!", a volume that shows, page by page, family members, a baby-sitter, a policeman, a teacher and several others all taking their clothes off (see picture).
The government also renamed the main airport in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) after the father of an important fence-sitter: the leader of a small party, Ajit Singh (who, in the event, voted against the government).
