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/ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtə/ · noun
A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians..
My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children.
He said he did not want to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men.
Use babysitter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Babysitter means A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians..
Common synonyms include childsitter, sitter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children.
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