minder
Meaning
- One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
- 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.
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Etymology
In summary
From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind + -er.
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