(n.) One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
(n.) One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Danziger, who flatly refused to go on an official trip to the circus, said gaining access was a daily battle, but in some cases their minders were more baffled than obstructive and couldn't understand why they wanted to meet hairdressers or fishermen.
(2) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(3) They asked why she was "running scared" of the media and being "gagged" by Tory minders when she was out on the stump.
(4) We haven’t escaped from the “minder” you apparently believe we should have, and you’re not about to be called on to become our carer.
(5) Jeremy Corbyn’s minders can put him into a smart blue suit for an interview with Jeremy Paxman – but with his position on Brexit, he will find himself alone and naked in the negotiating chamber of the European Union ,” she said.
(6) When we were finally taken to Dara'a, the southern city that had been the cradle of this insurrection, we travelled in the presence of four government minders and, when we attempted to talk to anyone, we found ourselves surrounded by Mukhabarat who instructed our interviewees to tell us everything was normal.
(7) But this is not that occasion, and in the beige-on-beige meeting room at Burberry's HQ in London, with David Yelland, the ex-editor of the Sun, and her PR minder in tow, it's not quite so chummy.
(8) In an attempt to show that Nato had struck non-military targets, government minders on Wednesday morning took journalists to see a "nature reserve", occasionally used by Gaddafi to entertain guests, that had been hit the previous evening.
(9) Journalist visas from the government are rare, and travel beyond a few square kilometres of central Damascus requires permission from the ministry of information and the accompaniment of a government minder.
(10) Danish child-minder Karsten Kaltoft was fired from his job because he was too overweight – at 25 stone – to tie a child's shoe laces.
(11) The beach photographs were taken when Andrea Rose, head of visual arts at the British Council, went for a swim with the minders, leaving Danziger free to wander along the water's edge with his camera, chatting to people and accepting food from beach barbecues.
(12) Minders again tried to stop journalists taking pictures.
(13) With Joleon Lescott, his supposed minder, having lost his man, Newcastle’s captain, unleashed a right-foot shot that Guzan should arguably have saved.
(14) In this fantasy land, there are no ropes, red tape, spin doctors or security minders to come between us and our idols.
(15) Last month, Gao slipped his minders to investigate claims of police torture and sexual abuse in Changchun, the provincial capital of Jilin.
(16) Journalists who have managed to leave it or another hotel without minders are detained by police or turned back at roadblocks.
(17) MI6 put Litvinenko on its payroll, gave him an encrypted phone and assigned him a minder, “Martin”.
(18) To suggestions that Hutchings is a loose cannon whose London minders (more evident on the doorstep than local activists) keep her firmly under control, he insists she is a "strong original, local voice".
(19) Libyan minders pushed and lashed out at the journalists, one of them drawing a gun, another smashing a CNN camera.
(20) The North Korean minders escorting us were furious, which perplexed me because the children were well-dressed and well-fed and obviously delighted to see their own images on screen for what was probably the first time.
Minter
Definition:
(n.) One who mints.
Example Sentences:
(1) Minter said that the Obama administration deserved credit for the new regulations.
(2) Shannon Minter, the legal director of National Center for Lesbian Rights, which is acting as co-counsel in the Utah case, Kitchen v Herbert, said such arguments were “unmoored from any reality”.
(3) 🎉😂💘🎉😂💘🎉😂@raisingmalawi.org A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Nov 27, 2016 at 9:34am PST Other lots up for auction include a private game of poker with actors Edward Norton and Jonah Hill, a week in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Palm Springs home, a private dinner performance by the magician David Blaine, and artworks by Ai Weiwei, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel , Marilyn Minter and Damien Hirst.
(4) It’s time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan Foley Read more But do law firms such as Minter Ellison or Corrs Chambers Westgarth who are also members of the BCA want our wildlife and wild places to have less protection?
(5) Even as nationwide marriage equality is on the horizon, the Alabama Supreme Court is determined to be on the wrong side of history,” said Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
(6) As the visibility of trans women has increased, so have attempts to detain them.” Minter said: “It’s not an overstatement to say people are living under conditions of torture.
(7) As shown previously by Grinnell & Minter (Biochem biophys acta 550 (1979) 92), fibronectin modified on tyrosine residues did not promote spreading and attachment of CHO cells.
(8) Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said that hate violence was running at levels that rendered it a national crisis.
(9) Chorionic sculpturing on eggs of Phlebotomus pedifer Lewis, Mutinga, and Ashford; the closely related Phlebotomus aculeatus Lewis, Minter, and Ashford (= P. elegonensis Ngoka, Madel, and Mutinga); and Phlebotomus martini Parrot was examined and compared by scanning electron microscopy.