babysitting

See also: baby-sitting, and baby sitting

English

Alternative forms

• baby sitting
• baby-sitting

Verb

babysitting

1. present participle and gerund of babysit

Noun

babysitting (usually uncountable, plural babysittings)

1. The work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents or guardians.

   Synonym: daycare

   Hypernym: childminding

   • 2013, Stephen Dixon, 30 Pieces of a Novel, →ISBN:

     But some have no parents, or none to speak of, and are living with a grandmother or uncle or married sister or sister who's not married but has three tots of her own to look after, or this unruly student's helping her to take care of them with babysitting or a paying after-school job.

Derived terms

• babysitting circle

Translations

work of a babysitter

• Danish: babysitning c, babysitting c
• French: baby-sitting (fr) m
• Hebrew: שמירטוף (he) m (shmirtúf)
• Japanese: 子守 (ja) (komori)
• Russian: бебиситтинг (ru) m (bebisitting)

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English babysitting.

Noun

babysitting c (singular definite babysittingen, not used in plural form)

1. The care of children in the temporary absence of their parents, the work of a babysitter, babysitting.

Inflection

Declension of babysitting

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	babysitting	babysittingen
genitive	babysittings	babysittingens

Synonyms

• babysitning