house sit

house sit (third-person singular simple present house sits, present participle house sitting, simple past and past participle house sat)

1. Alternative form of house-sit
   • 2004, Anthony J. Anderson, Paying Off Your Mortgage Quickly, page 11:

     Registration can cost around $400 depending on the area that you are looking to house sit in.

   • 2011, Russell D. Kornblut, My Name Is Planky, the Real-Life Story of a True Underdog, page 73:

     My step-dad told me that he would arrange for someone to house sit instead of Zoey and me being boarded.

   • 2012, Alex Ellison, A Star to Sail Her by:

     They stayed with us the first week; then, as a favor to our friend Marcy, decided to house sit for her as she was going off-island and rented a house from none other than a sitting Supreme Court Justice of the United States.

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