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How to pronounce babysitter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms baby-sitter, sitter
Type of keeper
Derivation baby-sit

Examples of babysitter

babysitter
I think Maddie is overtaking Ellen as our local children's favourite babysitter.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Finding a holiday babysitter may be difficult if you wait until the last minute.
From the tennessean.com
Rams babysitter Harp Pool caught on that Schuh was stashed in a Las Vegas hotel.
From the usatoday.com
He encouraged her to hire a babysitter, even a live-in if that would be helpful.
From the usatoday.com
The friend-slash-former-babysitter knew her story, too, and raised her eyebrows.
From the parenting.blogs.nytimes.com
The idea was borrowed from a babysitter whose parents were in financial trouble.
From the nzherald.co.nz
My daughter's babysitter was in the same high school class as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
From the nation.time.com
I spend about 30 minutes of quality time with them until my babysitter arrives.
From the charlotteobserver.com
She kept mentioning Zanny the babysitter, couldn't this be a code word for Zanex?
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
  • The Babysitter is a 1995 film directed by Guy Ferland and starring Alicia Silverstone based on the eponymous short story by Robert Coover in his collection Pricksongs and Descants (1969).
  • The 11th season of the American situation comedy television series Frasier originally aired between September 2003 and May 2004, beginning on September 23, 2003.
  • The Babysitter is a novel by R. L. Stine published in 1989, which led to establish Stine as a prominent author in the children's horror genre. It was listed as the 37th most enjoyable book for girls in a 1997 survey on literacy.
  • Babysitting is the practice of temporarily caring for a child on behalf of the child's parents. Babysitting is commonly performed as an odd job by teenagers for extra money, stereotypically (but not necessarily) by girls.
  • (Babysitters (film)) Babysitters is a pornographic film produced in 2007 by Digital Playground.
  • (Babysitting (Beavis and Butt-head episode)) The following is an episode list for the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-head. ...
  • A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians
  • (babysit) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money; To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much