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minder|ˈmaɪndə(r)|
Also 5 mendowre.
[f. mind n.1 and v. + -er1.]
†1. One who remembers. Obs. rare.
c1440Promp. Parv. 332/1 Meende haver, or mendowre, memor.
¶2. As transl. of τὸ νοοῦν (the thinking subject).
1587Golding De Mornay vi. 86 [Plotinus] his conclusion is, that the Mynder, the Mynding, and the Mynded, are in the Godhead all one thing.
3. One who minds.
†a. One who sets his mind upon (something). Obs.
1650O. Sedgewick Christ the Life 25 The Apostle speaks of Some who are Lovers of themselves..and who are Minders of themselves; they mind Earthly things.
b. One whose business is to ‘mind’ or attend to something; often with defining word as card-minder, cattle-minder, engine-minder; spec. (a) a machine-minder; (b) one who minds (see mind v. 11) a baby or child; a baby-sitter.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 214 His machine should reduce the minder and the screwer to one person. 1863[see baby-minder s.v. baby n. B. 1 b]. 1867Even. Stand. 14 Feb., Henry Clearby, a minder of carts. 1874Sunday Mag. 610 ‘Minders’, I echoed. ‘Yes, women who make a trade of baby minding, taking them by the day at so much a head’. 1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 215 When the lap is large enough, it is taken off by the card-minder. 1885Spectator 30 May 698/2 The engine minder who goes to the parish doctor because a spark has flown in his eye. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 709/2 If he is a machinist, he may superintend or be a ‘minder’ or he may be a layer-on or a taker-off of the sheets. 1902Westm. Gaz. 4 Apr. 6/2 One of the King's cattle-minders. 1938Amer. Speech XIII. 271 The man who runs the presses is a pressman in America, but a machinist or a machine minder or simply a minder in England. 1941[see child-minder s.v. child n. 22]. 1957Times 25 Nov. 11/4 Of course we will not worry about the children, we assure the kind minder as we blow farewell kisses. 1970Financial Times 13 Apr. 4/5 Among minders, the proportion on litho presses is forecast to go up from 20 per cent. in 1967 to 28 per cent. in 1972. 1971Daily Tel. 4 Nov. 9/3 Mothers, forced to work to make ends meet, ship their toddlers to unregistered minders, paid to keep an eye on them in ‘cramped rooms, with no toys or stimulus’.
c. slang. A person employed to protect a criminal; a thief's assistant.
1924E. Wallace Room 13 xii. 61 Glancing down into the street, he distinguished one of the ‘minders’ his father had put there for his protection. 1928― Flying Squad xvi. 144 Whizzers..had ‘minders’, whose business it was to kick and disable the poor souls who found themselves robbed and attempted to recover their own. 1960Observer 25 Dec. 7/6 A climbing team..was most often three-handed. Driver, minder, and climber... The minder stays at the foot of the pipe or ladder. His job is to safeguard the climber's rear and collect any gear he may sling down. 1968C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies vi. 160 At school he was a juvenile fence and money-lender, with a couple of tough, simple-minded older boys as his ‘minders’. 1973E. McGirr Bardel's Murder ii. 35 Comes of a whole family of wrong 'uns... A high class ‘minder’ around the big gambling set.
4. A child who is ‘minded’ or taken care of at a ‘minding school’.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xvi, ‘Those are not his brother and sister?’..‘Oh, dear no, ma'am. Those are Minders’. ‘Minders?’ the Secretary repeated. ‘Left to be Minded, sir’. 1903Treasury Sept. 1046 There had been a dame school, kept by an old woman... She was quite illiterate, and her pupils were simply minders.
Add:[3.] d. A person employed to accompany or assist another person, either to provide protection or advice, or to monitor that person's movements; spec. a bodyguard.
1980Telegraph (Brisbane) 4 Jan. 6/3 The frustrated spy catcher—or as they call it in the trade, rat catcher—was freed, along with various ‘minders’, a Morgan sports car and a thoroughly confused spy-watching world. 1985W. Golding Egyptian Jrnl. i. 11 Another visit to Egypt but this time with a Minder who spoke the language. 1988Independent 16 Sept. 7/2 You were living in luxury, surrounded by minders and assistants. 1992Vanity Fair Dec. 150/2 Caine sat at a table with a trio of minders behind him and a semicircle of press photographers in front.
e. Pol. A political adviser; spec. an experienced politician assigned to help a candidate during an election campaign.
1982Economist 20 Mar. 17/3 Mrs Helen Liddell, the shrewd secretary of the Labour party in Scotland, has been assigned as his ‘minder’. 1984Austral. Financial Rev. 9 Nov. 3/5 Mr. Hawke's minders have decided he should stay in the Boulevard Hotel when in Sydney rather than return to the cosseted environs of Kirribilli House. 1986Observer 20 July 16/5 Labour had decided that Frank Dobson MP would be her minder during the campaign. 1991Guardian 1 Nov. 4/5 The candidate's minder, Borders MP Archie Kirkwood, hinted yesterday that this coyness had been Mr Stephen's idea.
f. Journalism. One who safeguards information, either (as a public relations official or censor) to protect an organization, etc., from detrimental reports, or (as a journalist) to prevent a rival newspaper from gaining access to a story.
1982N.Y. Times 8 May i. 5/4 Censorship works as follows: all articles are submitted to one of the three public relations officers—‘minders’ or ‘thought people’ to the reporters—who strike out anything that offends. 1987Times 22 July 28/3 On the face of it, there is nothing special about a minder's job. ‘It is simply a matter of a reporter looking after his sources.’ 1994Post (Denver) 30 Jan. f9/1 His broadcasts..almost instantly transmitted via satellite.., although an Iraqui censor (called a minder) checked his words beforehand. |
