from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
minder
n 1: 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"
2: a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own
home) while the babys' parents are working [syn:
{babyminder}, {baby minder}, {minder}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to
the care of a private person. [Eng.] --Dickens.
[1913 Webster]