home-sit

Verb

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

1. Synonym of house-sit.
   • Hazel Freed and her cousin Susan Klayman call themselves Housewives Who Home-Sit. For several years they have been “home-sitting” for vacationing relatives and friends. Last May they began operating professionally and in partnership.1978 January 17, “A 5-year-old service: She’ll mind the cats but not the dogs”, in The Toronto Star, four star edition, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C1, column 5
   • The lovely home that we home-sat is high above the sea in Ledgewood Beach community and between community coffee and tea parties where everyone meets everyone else, and our long hikes on the beach and in the Island Parks and forests, we met many of our neighbors.1981 November 1, Barbara Hauge, “Winter visitors to Whidbey Island find a seniors’ ‘heaven by the sea’”, in Great Falls Tribune, 96th year, number 172, Great Falls, Mont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5-F...

   Synonyms:

   house-sit