0 a person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do: --
He sent one of his minions to do something about it.
Helens will be graded 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, or will he put in one of his minions to do it.
There was a special leaf in the register for that purpose, but the minions of the presiding officer knew nothing about it.
However, the vast majority of those people are minions and it does not matter when they do their work.
Preserve us from the bureaucrat dictators and their minions.
He was not present yesterday; he left it to his minions, pleasant and engaging though they are, to do the business.
It will be in the hands of one of his minions, and there should be some procedure for reviewing any such decision.
It was decided on by other factors, and the minions here have to do what they are told.
It is no good reducing a few minions at the lower levels unless there are cuts at the top.