Wednesday, May 16, 2018

NA2 16/5/18

au pairʊ ˈpeə $ oʊ ˈper/ noun [countable] 
a young person, usually a woman, who stays with a family in a foreign country to learn the language, and looks after their children for a small wage

ˈpocket ˌmoney noun [uncountable] 
1 British English a small amount of money that parents give regularly to their children, usually every week or month SYN allowance American English
- How much pocket money do you get?

child‧min‧der /ˈtʃaɪldˌmaɪndə $ -ər/ noun[countable] British English  someone who is paid to look after young children while their parents are at work

nanny /ˈnæni/ noun (plural nannies) [countable] 
1 a woman whose job is to take care of the children in a family, usually in the family’s own home
- She found a job as a nanny with a wealthy Italian family.

babysit /ˈbeɪbisɪt/ verb (past tense and past participle babysat /-sæt/, present participle babysitting) [intransitive, transitive] 
to take care of children while their parents are away for a short time

maid /meɪd/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
1 a female servant, especially in a large house or hotel
 a kitchen maid

clean‧er /ˈkliːnə $ -ər/  ●●○ S3 noun  1 [countable] especially British English someone whose job is to clean other people’s houses, offices etc
ˈmind-ˌboggling adjective informal 
difficult to imagine and very big, strange, or complicated
- a problem of mind-boggling complexity

Numbers:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/thirteen-hundred-and-so-on.915/

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