Definition of "babysit"

babysit

/ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present babysits, present participle babysitting, simple past and past participle babysat
1. (transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
  Quotations
  Bart eventually gets Laura to babysit while Homer and Marge eat at the Sea Captain’s all-you-can-eat seafood joint, The Frying Dutchman.
  2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎
2. (transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.
  Quotations
  It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]
  2016, Christopher Vasey, Nazi Intelligence Operations in Non-Occupied Territories, page 175