Babysit vs Petsit - What's the difference?
babysit | petsit |
To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
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To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.
As verbs the difference between babysit and petsit
is that babysit is to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money while petsit is to babysit for (take care of) a pet.babysit
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* (l)Verb
- My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.
- We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.
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- He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.
