Sentence examples for minders from inspiring English sources

'minders' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as a noun, meaning a person or persons employed to watch over someone or something. For example: "The new security team included two minders to look after the celebrity's estate."

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minders

noun

Plural of minder

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After being sentenced, Flowers left court flanked by three minders wearing dark suits and ties.

This huge gathering of young Home and Away stars also posed a problem for Seven minders because after the ceremony they had nowhere to party – and were threatening to go to Melbourne's city nightclubs en masse.

"It is very clear that these are the two KGB minders," Close said.

The only other comparable experience to politics at the highest level might be being the boss of a major corporation, but that person has a flotilla of assistants, minders, spinners, planners, schedulers, minions and an eye-popping salary.

Thatcher never lost her passion for photocalls and embraced animals again ahead of the 1987 election, when her minders believed the Iron Lady image required another softening.

Automation was reducing them to minders of the machines, not operators.

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It voted for a motion urging the church's money-minders to "disinvest from companies profiting from the illegal occupation, such as Caterpillar Inc, until they change their policies".Sir Jonathan Sacks, Britain's chief rabbi, lost his customary cool.

Child-minders come out well too.The problem appears first in language development.

Conspicuous religious adornments were banned from French state schools in 2004; and full-face veils were outlawed altogether in 2011.In Britain, for better or worse, a law that prevented child-minders or teachers from covering their heads (ie from wearing the standard Muslim hijab) would be very hard to imagine.

Kind but clueless neighbours stopped looking after little ones, who were instead herded into formal nurseries or handed over to one of the ever-fewer registered child-minders.

The National Childminding Association reckons that part of this decline is also down to an unintended consequence of the government spending £14 billion on services for young children since 1998: child-minders have suddenly found there are lots of jobs in nurseries.Extending entitlement to maternity leave would, according to Mr Melhuish, largely solve the problem.

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