minder
IPA: mˈaɪndɝ
noun
- One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
- (Britain) A personal bodyguard.
- 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).
- (obsolete) One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.
- A surname.
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Examples of "minder" in Sentences
- COOPER: Our minder was a friendly young man who explained he was there to help us.
- COOPER (voice over): Our minder was a friendly young man who explained he was there to help us.
- COOPER (voice-over): Our minder was a friendly young man who explained he was there to help us.
- Catherine picked up the phone in the conference room and called her minder, a British press officer called Paul Bennett.
- The consultant always gets an in-house minder aka the organization's Project Manager to negotiate admin and, more importantly, internal political issues.
- BT has put up the price of making a daytime call; the so-called "connection fee" that is involved in putting a call through from a BT line; the call minder answerphone service and the monthly line rental charge.
- It would have been friendly (though probably a little longer) even without the "minder" - it just doesn't make sense to play "gotchya" if you want to learn anything from, or communicate anything to, influence brokers.
- Corey, teaming up with Kate Mayfield, his minder from the Bureau, sets out to track the Lion, figure out what hes up to this time, and, with all the reckless panache of a homicide cop turned loose to play James Bond, save the free world from unspeakable perils.
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