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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 home
Familiarity information: BABY-SITTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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