minder : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: minder	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for minder
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
minder n 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 Synonym(s): babyminder, baby minder, minder
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Minder \Mind"er\, n. 1. One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom. 2. One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. [Eng.] --Dickens.