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单词 house-sitting
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house-sitting in British English

present participle of verb
house-sit
 

house-sit in British English

verbWord forms: -sits, -sitting or -sat (intransitive)
to live in and look after a house during the absence of its owner or owners
Derived forms
house-sitter (ˈhouse-ˌsitter)
noun

Examples of 'house-sitting' in a sentence
house-sitting

For five years she had been house-sitting for absent lovers, or staying with friends, or one way or another putting off her domestic duties.
Fay Weldon NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Awkwardly, though, a young couple house-sitting for the flat's owners refuse to leave.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Meanwhile, pet-sitters should have house-sitting and key-replacement cover.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Grace, who also does some acting, began creating video blogs in 2007 when she was house-sitting.
The Sun (2015)
They were talking about people who did house-sitting for rich people when they went on holiday.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
His writing covered everything from house-sitting and how to cook garden snails for guests to beekeeping and historic loos.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He said she had been house-sitting for a man in a flat here for four months.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
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