minder Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors
    • I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us
  2. noun a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working
    baby minder; babyminder.

WordNet


Mind"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
  2. One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. Eng. Dickens.

Webster 1913