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BABY-SITTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baby-sitter mean? 

BABY-SITTER (noun)
  The noun BABY-SITTER has 1 sense:

1. a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not homeplay

  Familiarity information: BABY-SITTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BABY-SITTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

baby-sitter; babysitter; sitter

Hypernyms ("baby-sitter" is a kind of...):

keeper (someone in charge of other people)

Derivation:

baby-sit (work or act as a baby-sitter)


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