minder Meaning, Definition & Usage
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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
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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
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One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a .minder of a loom -
One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. Eng. Dickens.