sitter

as in nurse
a person employed to care for a young child or children we'll be going to the movie if we can get a sitter for the kids

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Recent Examples of sitter But earlier in the night Van Dijk had to make a goal-saving block after sloppy play from Alisson and then Pedro Porro missed a sitter. James Pearce, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025 After anxiously leaving their dog with a pet sitter for a few days, a family began to relax and thought that no news was good news. Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 That particular kerfuffle went all the way to the Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case; Musk was stuck with his Twitter sitter. Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024 Discretionary: $2,206 on festival tickets, pet supplies, a cat sitter, clothes and beauty purchases, home supplies, gifts and shipping costs for Controlled Chaos sales. Kamaron McNair,raffi Paul, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sitter 

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“Sitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sitter. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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