0 someone who protects another person, often a famous person, from danger and unwanted public attention: --
His public-relations minder refused to allow him to answer any of the journalists' questions.
The president arrived surrounded by his minders.
There has grown up in the country a scheme by which women who are working in the factories may leave their children with minders.
Unless we have a proper child care strategy, the women who look after children will be as disadvantaged as the women who need child minders.
There were also more than 357,000 places with registered child minders in 1994—more than three times the 1984 figure.
Child minders make a valuable contribution to the care of children of working parents.
The minders were unsure of the children's names and addresses.
In 1978 there were 28,000 children in local authority nurseries but there were 100,000 children being looked after by child minders.
If circumstances do not permit a school crèche or nursery then baby-minders of some kind should be found for the solution of the problem.
Many of them may well look after their children as capably and with as much love and affection as minders who are registered.
