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UK
/mˈaɪndɐ/
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[ US /ˈmaɪndɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈmaɪndɝ/ ]
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 - a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working
How To Use minder In A Sentence
- We would have make it earlier, but I procrastinated with completed and sealed ballots sitting on my desk for a couple of days -- no good excuse, but the reminders to spare the GOTC callers (and ourselves) reminder calls goosed me into action. BlueOregon
- Just a reminder - expenditure on staff costs and consumables is ‘spending’, not ‘investment’, and just because Nu-Labour persists in miscalling it as spending, it doesn't mean we have to accept meekly their attempts to confuse the issue.
- Committed by parents, teachers, priests or minders it undermines trust and dependency, disrupts relations with authority figures and can interfere with loving and learning.
- She is a constant reminder that an alternative was once possible, which might flower again.
- For the computer savvy individual, you can set up your daily or weekly schedule to give you an auto-reminder of you resolution.
- This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
- You can also set bill reminders or overdraft alerts. Times, Sunday Times
- The photographs of black cotton pickers, including young children, are reminders of the harsh reality underlying the glory.
- And in almost all of the lusterware there's the constant reminder of the debt owed to the 12th - and 13th-century Persian ceramic tradition. Upper Broadway's Buried Treasures
- Your reminders will help you navigate this process. Christianity Today