minder
Noun: 1. A person employed to look after and protect someone, especially a child or a person considered to be at risk or in need of supervision. 2. A person, especially in an authoritarian state, assigned to accompany and monitor a foreign visitor, journalist, or other outsider, officially to assist but also to control their access and movements.
The word "minder" describes a role focused on supervision, protection, and often control. It implies a close, watchful presence. * As a childcare provider, it is a synonym for a nanny or babysitter, but can imply a more formal or protective role. * As a state-assigned escort, it carries connotations of surveillance and restriction of freedom under the guise of assistance.
- Noun (Childcare):
- The working parents hired a reliable minder for their toddler.
- The child's minder took them to the park every afternoon.
- Noun (State Escort):
- The journalist was never left alone; a government minder accompanied him everywhere.
- Our official minder arranged all our meetings and translated our conversations.
- "to be assigned a minder": To be given an official escort/observer, often implying a lack of trust or freedom.
- All foreign delegates were assigned a minder for the duration of the conference.
- "to shake off one's minder": To evade or escape from the person monitoring you.
- The reporter managed to shake off her minder and speak to the protesters directly.
- Mind (verb): To look after or be careful of.
- Childminder (noun): A person, often professionally registered, who looks after children in their own home. (This is a common compound form specifically for childcare).
- Bodyguard (noun): A person employed to protect an individual from physical attack. (More focused on physical security than general supervision).
- For childcare: Nanny, babysitter, childcarer, guardian.
- For state escort: Escort, chaperone, monitor, watchdog, overseer.
- To keep an eye on someone: To watch someone carefully. (This is the general action a minder performs).
- The teacher asked me to keep an eye on the new student.
- To babysit someone/something (informal, extended meaning): To watch over or supervise.
- Can you babysit this project while I'm on vacation?
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a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working
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someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors
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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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