minder

From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)

minder (plural minders)

1. One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
2. (British) A personal bodyguard.
3. A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
   • 1982, Paul Eddy, Magnus Linklater, Peter Gillman, The Falklands War, page 212:

     The twenty-eight journalists who sailed with the task force were accompanied by seven censors or 'minders' from the MoD, as well as by military press officers attached to each unit.

   • 2005, Roger V. Seifert, Tom Sibley, United They Stood: The Story of the UK Firefighters' Dispute 2002-4, Lawrence & Wishart Limited:

     Once again the employers, now closely gripped by Central Government minders, offered 4 % now and 7 % in one year's time, and all tied to modernisation. This was not what the FBU had bargained for. So the strike started.

   • 2008, Poor George's Almanac: A 2008 Calendar, →ISBN, page 101:

     Pieter Tans, a 20-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employee, was told not to use the phrase 'climate change' in paper titles and abstracts for the Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference. When an official flew in from Washington to be present for an interview Tans gave to the BBC, Mr. Tans wondered why a U.S. government “minder”, reminiscent of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, was required.

   • 2009, Thomas Rid, Marc Hecker, War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age, page 83:

     Rear Admiral John Woodward, the operational commander, summarized the instructions to the six MoD minders as “co-operation, yes; information, no.”

   • 2010 Oct, Tim Butcher, “Our Man in Liberia”, in History Today, volume 60, number 10, pages 10–17:

     Throughout Greene's writing he repeatedly refers to dodging government control in Liberia, first by entering the country incognito and then by completing his journey without government minders.

   • 2015, Tony Harcup, Journalism: Principles and Practice, SAGE, →ISBN, page 79:

     […] some other journalists were becoming "embedded" with the military as one way of reporting from the front: living with the military, […] and reporting under military restrictions. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, embedded reporters tended to adopt the perspective of their hosts and minders, as US journalist Gordon Dillow later admitted […]

   • 2016 May 11, Anna Fifield, “I went to North Korea and was told I ask too many questions”, in The Washington Post:

     Was she really ill? Was she really a patient? We will never know. Suddenly, it was time to go and our minders were herding us back onto the bus.

4. (obsolete) One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.

• protector
• guardian

• remind

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minder

1. mattress

   Synonyms: şilte, töşek

• “minder”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

minder

1. indefinite plural of minde

minder

1. present of minde

From Middle Dutch minre, from Old Dutch minniro, from Proto-Germanic *minnizô, comparative of adjective deriving from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”).

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• Rhymes: -ɪndər

minder

1. comparative degree of weinig; less, fewer

minder

1. comparative degree of weinig; less

• minderheid
• minderwaardig

minder (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. worse, not as good

   De aardappelen waren heerlijk, maar de biefstuk was minder.

   The potatoes were delicious, but the steak was not as good.

2. less fortunate

   We hebben de wedstrijd gewonnen, maar ik heb wel mijn enkel verzwikt, dus dat is minder.

   We won the competition, but I did sprain my ankle, so that's less fortunate.

• Negerhollands: minder
• → Aukan: mendii

From Middle High German minder, minner, minre, from Old High German minniro, from Proto-Germanic *minnizô, comparative of adjective deriving from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”). Originally the comparative form of min, of which the superlative is mindesten.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪndɐ]

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minder

1. (now formal) comparative degree of wenig
2. (now formal) comparative degree of gering

• Minderheit
• Minderwuchs
• mindern
• vermindern
• Verminderung
• mehr oder minder
• minderwertig
• nichtsdestominder

• “minder” in Duden online
• “minder” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Dutch minderwaardig (“inferior, third-rate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪn.dər/
• Hyphenation: min‧dêr

minder

1. (colloquial) feeling inferior due to low self-esteem, insecure.

   Synonym: rendah diri

• “minder” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• minders

Same as mindre (“less”).

minder

1. (rare) unless

   Synonym: med mindre

minder

1. (rare) else, otherwise

   Synonym: elles

• “minder” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mindre

From Ottoman Turkish مندر (minder).

minder m (Cyrillic spelling миндер)

1. mat
2. cushion
3. divan (furniture)

From Ottoman Turkish مندر (minder),[1] from Persian نیمدار (nimdâr, “outworn but still useful garment”).[2]

Cognates include Albanian minder, Bulgarian миндер (minder), Macedonian миндер (minder), Romanian mindir, Serbo-Croatian миндер.

• IPA^(key): /minˈdeɾ/
• Hyphenation: min‧der

minder (definite accusative minderi, plural minderler)

1. A type of cushion or mattress for sitting or lying on.
2. (sports) mat

• minderden kaçmak
• minder çürütmek

• “minder”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu