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Minder
name, noun
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Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
"With the bulky, heavy helmet for the film strapped on, I was inside a fully immersive virtual world. With de la Peña playing minder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story."
- 2 a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babies' parents are working wordnet
- 3 A personal bodyguard. British
- 4 someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors wordnet
- 5 A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
"The twenty-eight journalists who sailed with the task force were accompanied by seven censors or 'minders' from the MoD, as well as by military press officers attached to each unit."
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- 6 One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward. obsolete
Etymology
From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind + -er.
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