housesit
Americanverb (used without object)
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In 2018, Colin and Kai Frolich left San Francisco for Truckee to housesit for a friend.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022
Approximately a month ago I hired a young man from a pet store I frequent to housesit for a day.
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2019
In addition to dog walking and pet sitting, Rover workers can housesit or do “drop in” visits with animals to feed them, let them out for a few minutes or administer medicine.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2019
To impress a young woman, a man agrees to housesit at his employer’s mansion for one night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
Derek stayed near campus to housesit for a professor after graduation, and he began to consider making a public statement.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2016
In the following months, I lived on couches and housesat, penniless in the brutal Yukon winter.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2019
Sam and Yash have been housesitting for one of their professors while he is on sabbatical overseas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Then they will stay on for three more weeks in the US, without paying for any overnight accommodation, thanks to further housesitting stints in Connecticut and Brooklyn.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
He’s currently housesitting, and said he and his wife have talked about parking an RV on her sister’s property in the area during football season.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Paris-based Nomador, a housesitting platform, saw a 60% increase in new sitters from the last quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023, CEO Mathilde Ferrari said.
From Reuters ● May 22, 2023
Then I spent a couple of weeks in Manhattan housesitting for my friend while he was visiting his folks in Wisconsin for Thanksgiving.
From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
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