babysitter

Noun

Meaning

a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home

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TV is the best babysitter. John Goodman

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. Alfred Hitchcock

I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes. Emma Roberts

I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen. Ari Graynor

Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why. Bill Bixby

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her. Patricia Heaton

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