babysit means To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.
verb
- To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.“My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.”
- To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen.“The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it.”
- To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much.“He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.”