Meaning of Minder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
3. A personal bodyguard.
   British
4. 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).
5. One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.
   obsolete

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Examples

“With the bulky, heavy helmet for the film strapped on, I was inside a fully immersive virtual world. With de la Peña playing minder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story.”

“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.”

“Once again the employers, now closely gripped by Central Government minders, offered 4 % now and 7 % in one year's time, and all tied to modernisation. This was not what the FBU had bargained for. So the strike⟳ started.”

“Pieter Tans, a 20-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employee, was told not to use⟳ the phrase 'climate change⟳' in paper titles and abstracts for the Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference. When an official flew in from Washington to be present⟳ for an interview Tans gave to the BBC, Mr. Tans wondered why a U.S. government “minder”, reminiscent of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, was required.”

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

“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.”

“[…] some other journalists were becoming "embedded" with the military as one way of reporting from the front: living with the military, […] and reporting under military restrictions. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, embedded reporters tended to adopt⟳ the perspective of their hosts and minders, as US journalist Gordon Dillow later admitted […]”

“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.”

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