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minder
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun minder has 2 senses
- minder(n = noun.person) Array - 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" is a kind of escort
- minder(n = noun.person) baby minder, babyminder - a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working; Array is a kind of keeper
CIDE DICTIONARY
minder, n.
- One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom. [1913 Webster]
- One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. Dickens. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
minder, n.
1 a a person whose job it is to attend to a person or thing. b (in comb.) (child-minder; machine-minder).
2 sl. a a bodyguard, esp. a person employed to protect a criminal. b a thief's assistant.
1 a a person whose job it is to attend to a person or thing. b (in comb.) (child-minder; machine-minder).
2 sl. a a bodyguard, esp. a person employed to protect a criminal. b a thief's assistant.
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