Definition of "baby-sit" [baby-sit]

• To take care of a child or children in the absence of a parent or guardian. (verb-intransitive)
• To take care of or watch over someone or something needing attention or guidance. (verb-intransitive)
• To provide care for (a child) in the absence of a parent or guardian. (verb-transitive)
• To watch over or tend: baby-sat the neighbor's plants for a week. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""These officers were taken away from their emergency duties to baby-sit this car.""
• "Advocates are hoping the push for more rights for domestic servants will spread to other unskilled migrants, as some countries grow increasingly reliant on imported cheap labor to baby-sit for their children, staff their factories and build their skyscrapers."
• "Stop letting the TV and the internet baby-sit and spend time with their children."