Child-mind
verb
to babysit; to look after children
Examples
eighth-graders signed up to child-mind
Word Origin
1969; back-formation from childminder
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- Childminder
[chahyld-mahyn-der] /ˈtʃaɪldˌmaɪn dər/ noun, British. 1. a baby-sitter. noun 1. a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working noun a person who cares for other people’s children as employment; also written child-minder Usage Note UK; childminding n
- Child-minder
[chahyld-mahyn-der] /ˈtʃaɪldˌmaɪn dər/ noun, British. 1. a baby-sitter. noun 1. a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working noun See childminder noun a person who cares for other people’s children as employment; also written child-minder Usage Note UK; childminding n
- Childness
[chahyld-nis] /ˈtʃaɪld nɪs/ noun, Archaic. 1. the quality of being a .
- Child-pornography
noun 1. using a child or children as the subject.
- Child process
operating system A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child […]