"house sit" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: house sits [present, singular, third-person], house sitting [participle, present], house sat [participle, past], house sat [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|house sit<,,sat>}} 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 Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: house-sit
    Sense id: en-house_sit-en-verb-aUJK0RPn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    },
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    },
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Anthony J. Anderson, Paying Off Your Mortgage Quickly, page 11:",
          "text": "Registration can cost around $400 depending on the area that you are looking to house sit in.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Russell D. Kornblut, My Name Is Planky, the Real-Life Story of a True Underdog, page 73:",
          "text": "My step-dad told me that he would arrange for someone to house sit instead of Zoey and me being boarded.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Alex Ellison, A Star to Sail Her by:",
          "text": "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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      "form": "house sat",
      "tags": [
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          "text": "My step-dad told me that he would arrange for someone to house sit instead of Zoey and me being boarded.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Alex Ellison, A Star to Sail Her by:",
          "text": "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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