- a person whose job is to take care of young children in the children’s own home
- She applied for the job of nanny to the Rickman family.
- She was taken on as a nanny to their two small children.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- live-in
- full-time
- nanny for
- nanny to
- (also nan)(both British English) (used by children, especially as a form of address) a grandmother
- When is Nanny coming to stay?
- my nan and grandad
Word Originearly 18th cent.: familiar form of the given name Ann.
Idioms
See nanny in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe nanny state
- (disapproving) a way of talking about government which shows that you do not approve of it and suggests that it is too involved in controlling and protecting people in a way that limits their freedom
- This latest policy is an example of the nanny state gone mad.
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