0 a person whose job is to take care of a particular family's children --
1 child's word for a grandmother: --
[ as form of address ] Can I have a drink, Nanny?
2 a woman employed to take care of children in the children’s home: --
Did all this property go to his nanny-goats?
Once again, instead of considering the rights of individual employees, a set of nanny state rules to govern employer-employee relations is being foisted on us.
That is the apotheosis of the nanny state—asking for trouble and likely to get it.
That is especially important, as such agencies often bring in nannies and child minders from abroad.
This legislation smacks of the nanny state and verges on the patronising in its current form.
The introduction of seat belts could perhaps also be described as a product of the nanny state, yet it has saved a great many lives.
However, reliable nannies, mostly young women from the countryside, are hard to recruit and keep, once they have learned the ropes about life in the city.
Writers reiterate their sense of the wrongness that a housekeeper, cook, or nanny will consistently receive a pension from her family, but that a governess will simply be dismissed.
