Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - babysit

(babysits, babysitting, babysat) If you babysit for someone or babysit their children, you look after their children while they are out. I promised to babysit for Mrs Plunkett... You can take it in turns to babysit... She had been babysitting him and his four-year-old sister. VERB: V for n, V, V n • babysitter (babysitters) It can be difficult to find a good babysitter. N-COUNT • babysitting Would you like me to do any babysitting? N-UNCOUNT