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Noun: childminder  'chI(-u)ld,mIn-du(r)
Usage: Brit
  1. A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
    "The teenagers in the neighbourhood often worked as childminders";
    - babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter

Derived forms: childminders

Type of: keeper

Encyclopedia: Childminder