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baby sitting

baby sitting is the alternative spelling of babysitting.

Meaning of babysitting

Noun

babysitting (usually uncountable, plural babysittings)

  1. (usually) The work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents or guardians.
    • But some have no parents, or none to speak of, and are living with a grandmother or uncle or married sister or sister who's not married but has three tots of her own to look after, or this unruly student's helping her to take care of them with babysitting or a paying after-school job.2013, Stephen Dixon, 30 Pieces of a Novel, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    daycare

Forms of baby sitting

pluralbaby sittings

Questions about baby sitting

What is baby sitting the alternative spelling of?
Baby sitting is the alternative spelling of babysitting.

Words near baby sitting in the dictionary

  1. baby shower
  2. baby showers
  3. baby sister
  4. baby sitter
  5. baby sitters
  6. baby sitting
  7. baby sittings
  8. baby sling
  9. baby slings
  10. baby snatcher
  11. baby snatchers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baby sitting (page history and authors); babysitting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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