Usually means: Caring for home while absent.
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  1. house-sit: Merriam-Webster
  2. house-sit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. house-sit, house-sit: Collins English Dictionary
  4. house-sit: Wordnik
  5. house-sit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. house-sit: Wiktionary
  7. house-sit: Dictionary.com
  8. house-sit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. house-sit: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See house_sitter as well.)

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verb:  (ambitransitive) To live temporarily in someone else's home, or to attend it regularly, for the purpose of protecting and tending to it in the owner's or tenant's absence.

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