minders

Noun

minder (plural minders)

1. One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
   • 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.2013 September 25, Neal Ungerleider, “Put On A Helmet, And You’re In The Story: Why Virtual Reality Journalism Is The Future”, in Fast Company, archived from the original on 26 May 2020
2. (UK) A personal bodyguard.
3. 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).
   • 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.1982, Paul Eddy, Magnus Linklater, Peter Gillman, The Falklands War, page 212
4. (obsolete) One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.

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