Minder

Quick meaning: Minder is a noun meaning One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.

Meaning

One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.

More Meanings

1. (British) A personal bodyguard.
2. 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).
3. (obsolete) One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.

Example Sentences

Was she really ill? Was she really a patient? We will never know. Suddenly, it was time to go and our minders were herding us back onto the bus.

Rear Admiral John Woodward, the operational commander, summarized the instructions to the six MoD minders as “co-operation, yes; information, no.”

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.

Throughout Greene's writing he repeatedly refers to dodging government control in Liberia, first by entering the country incognito and then by completing his journey without government minders.

Word Forms

• minders

Synonyms for minder

Depending on context, synonyms include protector, guardian, babyminder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include babyminder, safekeeping, assets, witness, keepsake, designator.

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