BABYSITTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does babysitter mean? 

• BABYSITTER (noun)
  The noun BABYSITTER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BABYSITTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BABYSITTER (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 ("babysitter" is a kind of...):

keeper (someone in charge of other people)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

Compared to children in center-based care, children in home-based care, whether provided by a parent, babysitter or relative, were more than twice as likely to have high screen time.

(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)