baby-sit (verb)

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• baby-sit — verb 1. take watchful responsibility for I baby sit the neighbor s plants when she is out of town • Hypernyms: ↑guard • Verb Frames: Somebody s something 2. work or act as a baby sitter I cannot baby sit tonight; I have too much homework to do …   Useful english dictionary

• baby-sit — verb a) To watch or tend someone elses child for a period of time, often for money. He left me to baby sit the new guy while he got some work done. b) To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.… …   Wiktionary

• sit in — verb 1. attend as a visitor Can I sit in on your Intermediate Hittite class? • Hypernyms: ↑attend, ↑go to • Verb Frames: Somebody s PP 2. participate in an act of civil disobedience • Derivationall …   Useful english dictionary

• sit — /sIt/ verb past tense and past participle sat present participle sitting 1 IN A CHAIR ETC a) (I) to be on a chair or seat, or on the ground, with the top half of your body upright and your weight resting on your buttocks (+on/in/by etc): sitting… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• sit — (v.) O.E. sittan to be seated, to seat oneself (class V strong verb; past tense sæt, pp. seten), from P.Gmc. *setjanan (Cf. O.S. sittian, O.N. sitja, O.Fris. sitta, M.Du. sitten, Du. zitten, O.H.G. sizzan, Ger. sitzen, Goth. sitan), from PIE …   Etymology dictionary

• baby — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ new, newborn, tiny ▪ low birthweight, small, tiny ▪ Smoking in pregnancy increases the risk of producing a low birthweight baby. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• sit up — phr verb Sit up is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑baby …   Collocations dictionary

• ba|by-sit — «BAY bee SIHT», intransitive verb, sat, sit|ting. 1. to take care of a child or children while the parents are away for a while. 2. Figurative. to take care of someone or something which is usually otherwise taken care of: »I had to baby sit for… …   Useful english dictionary

• house-sit — [c]/ˈhaʊs sɪt/ (say hows sit) verb (house sat, house sitting) –verb (i) 1. to occupy a house, apartment, etc., temporarily and without the payment of rent, for the purpose of providing security or daily maintenance during the absence of the… …  

• set, sit — Predominantly a transitive verb, set means to put, to place : Set the box on the floor, please. Sit is predominantly an intransitive verb with a basic meaning of to place oneself : When I sit down, you come and sit beside me. Set used for sit,… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

• have — I [[t]həv, STRONG hæv[/t]] AUXILIARY VERB USES ♦ has, having, had (In spoken English, forms of have are often shortened, for example I have is shortened to I ve and has not is shortened to hasn t.) 1) AUX You use the forms have and has with a… …   English dictionary