apartment-sit

verb

To live in and take care of someone's apartment while they are away.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person apartment-sits · participle present apartment-sitting · participle past apartment-sat · past apartment-sat

  1. To live in and take care of someone's apartment while they are away.

    I'll be able to apartment-sit during the day and dine in a distant province in the evening.

    1981, Vincent McConnor, The Paris puzzle
    2 more examples

    Lauren and Ben Gruning apartment-sit a friend's condominium in San Francisco every year, and this arrangement provides them with a way to fulfill the requirement to leave Mexico every six months, since they do not have resident status.

    1991, Allene Symons, Jane Parker, Adventures abroad: exploring the travel/retirement option, page 125

    Since he had a special kind of primrose that demanded constant watering, he asked his cousin to apartment-sit for him.

    2002, Stanislaw Lem, Peace on Earth

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
flat-sit

Origin

By analogy to babysit.

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