baby-sitter

noun

1. a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out

Example Sentences

There’s Debbie, the 20-year-old baby-sitter from Boston whose older sister, “the one who goes to college,” told her about the phone.

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But I do think we have a bigger expectation of what we want when we go out, when we get the baby-sitter, when we pay for parking.

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"We all have weekly shifts assigned and there is no limit to the number of hours we can work," says Pizza, who boosts her income helping out as a baby-sitter, cleaner and waiter.

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In one, Anderson says she was molested by a female baby-sitter between the ages of six and 10.

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“My mother worked a lot, and movies were like my baby-sitter,” he says.

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