Usually means: Caring for children temporarily; guardianship.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. babysit: Merriam-Webster
  2. babysit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Babysit, babysit: Wordnik
  4. babysit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. babysit: Wiktionary
  6. babysit: Dictionary.com
  7. babysit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. babysit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. babysit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  10. babysit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  11. babysit: Merriam-Webster

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  1. babysit: Medical dictionary

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  1. babysit: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. babysit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Babysit: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (ambitransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much.

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