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A minder is someone employed to protect another person. In British English this often means a bodyguard: a singer’s minder walks close, watches the crowd, and steps in if there is trouble. Newspapers also use it for the person who keeps a public figure in line in public — still paid to watch over them. The word feels British; Americans more often say bodyguard. It is built like “the one who minds,” and mind here means look after, not “your brain.” A looks after children, which is a different job that happens to share the same pieces.
保鑣、貼身保鑣（英式；美式較常說 bodyguard。台灣也寫「保鏢」）
組成mind (“look after, watch over”) + -er (“the person who does it”). From Middle English mynder, a keeper; someone who watches over or keeps a thing in mind.
同家族的字
- mindthe verb mind, meaning look after or pay attention to
- childmindersame mind + -er, but the job is looking after children
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Mindername
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A surname.
mindernoun
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One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
- With the bulky, heavy helmet for the film strapped on, I was inside a fully immersive virtual world. With de la Peña playing minder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story.
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A personal bodyguard.
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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).
- 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.
- 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.
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obsoleteOne who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。