Bodyguard vs. Minder — What's the Difference?

A bodyguard (or close protection officer/operative) is a type of security guard, government law enforcement officer, or servicemember who protects a person or a group of people — usually high-ranking public officials or officers, wealthy people, and celebrities — from danger: generally theft, assault, kidnapping, assassination, harassment, loss of confidential information, threats, or other criminal offences. The personnel team that protects a VIP is often referred to as the VIP's security detail.

A minder is the person assigned to guide or escort a visitor, or to provide protection to somebody, or to otherwise assist or take care of something, i.e. a person who "minds".

A person or group of persons, usually armed, responsible for the safety of one or more other persons.

The faculty of a human or other animal by which it thinks, perceives, feels, remembers, or desires

A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.

A person of great mental ability

(transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.

Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection

A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.

Opinion or sentiment

Retinue; attendance; following.

Desire or inclination

Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person

Focus of thought; attention

A group of men who escort and protect some important person

A healthy mental state; sanity

The thought processes characteristic of a person or group; psychological makeup

(Philosophy) The phenomena of intelligence, cognition, or consciousness, regarded as a material or immaterial aspect of reality.

To pay attention to

To be careful about

To heed in order to obey

To take care or charge of; look after

One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.

(British) A personal bodyguard.

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).

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

One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.

One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.

A woman who looks after babies in her own home while their parents are working