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Definition of machine minder in English: machine mindernoun British A person who operates a machine. Example sentencesExamples - As the data volumes grow the result will tend to be teams of disempowered machine minders chained to a system that has ground to a halt.
- In 38 years with the paper he rose from machine minder to become the man who was in charge of the night-time printing operation.
- She left school at 14 and went to work as a shop assistant, a machine minder and a photographer's assistant.
- The 45-year-old machine minder had been seen leaving a pub after an all-day binge.
- Employees were merely machine minders.
- The scientists themselves gradually become specialist machine-minders.
- Promoted at sixteen from errand boy to machine minder, he took up a three-year printing apprenticeship, and joined the Typographical Association.
- The weavers found themselves downgraded to mere machine-minders.
Synonyms machinist, mechanic, operative, engineer, driver, worker
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