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apartment-sit

apartment-sit verb: to live in and take care of someone's apartment while they are away.

Verb

apartment-sit (third-person singular simple present apartment-sits, present participle apartment-sitting, simple past and past participle apartment-sat)

  1. To live in and take care of someone's apartment while they are away.
    • I'll be able to apartment-sit during the day and dine in a distant province in the evening.1981, Vincent McConnor, The Paris puzzle
    • Lauren and Ben Gruning apartment-sit a friend's condominium in San Francisco every year, and this arrangement provides them with a way to fulfill the requirement to leave Mexico every six months, since they do not have resident status.1991, Allene Symons, Jane Parker, Adventures abroad: exploring the travel/retirement option, page 125

Forms of apartment-sit

third-person singular presentapartment-sits
present participleapartment-sitting
past participleapartment-sat
pastapartment-sat

Origin of apartment-sit

By analogy to babysit.

Questions about apartment-sit

What does apartment-sit mean?
Apartment-sit means to live in and take care of someone's apartment while they are away.
What part of speech is apartment-sit?
Apartment-sit is a verb.
What is the past tense of apartment-sit?
The past tense of apartment-sit is apartment-sat.

Words near apartment-sit in the dictionary

  1. apartment sits
  2. apartment sitting
  3. apartment tower
  4. apartment towers
  5. apartment-sat
  6. apartment-sit
  7. apartment-sits
  8. apartment-sitting
  9. apartmental
  10. apartmentless
  11. apartmentlike

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