house sitter

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   a custodian who lives in and cares for a house while the regular occupant is away (usually without an exchange of money)

   Broadercustodian

Questions about house sitter

What does house sitter mean?

house sitter means "a custodian who lives in and cares for a house while the regular occupant is away (usually without an exchange of money)".

Is house sitter a common word?

house sitter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.