apartment-sit

verb

Etymology

By analogy to babysit.

Definitions

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

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