babysit
/ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/ verbo B1En español: cuidar niños, hacer de canguro/niñero
- 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.· We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.
- 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.
He/she/it babysits · Pasado babysat · Participio pasado babysat · Forma en -ing babysitting
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First, she gets a job babysitting her neighbor's kids.
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