BABYSITTER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home

Synonyms:

baby-sitter; babysitter; sitter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("babysitter" is a kind of...):

keeper (someone in charge of other people)

Derivation:

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

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