home-sitting
home-sitting is the alternative form of homesitting.
home-sitting is the present participle and gerund of home-sit.
Meaning of homesitting
Noun
homesitting (uncountable)
- Living in and taking care of a home when the usual occupants are away.
Meaning of home-sit
Verb
home-sit (third-person singular simple present home-sits, present participle home-sitting, simple past and past participle home-sat)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- house-sit
Questions about home-sitting
- What is home-sitting the alternative form of?
- Home-sitting is the alternative form of homesitting.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: home-sitting (page history and authors); homesitting (page history and authors); home-sit (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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