National Guard
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈnæʃənəl ɡɑrd/
- Formal
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Guardia Nacional (EE. UU.)
- The National Guard was deployed to assist local authorities during the emergency.
- National Guard member
- served in the National Guard
- National Guard duty
We'll never send our National Guard to actually defend our borders.
- We'll never send our National Guard to actually defend our borders.
- That famous tweet and Mayor Frye didn't call in the National Guard, but now he did.
- That's about the size of our entire National Guard.
- Well, of course, the answer being that the trials were a sham and the National Guard was there throughout the entire time protecting these young men.
- The the governor wouldn't send in the National Guard while people got beat and buildings got burnt and dreams got destroyed.
- The US Army was fairly complex before the war, with a system of state militias, a standing army, and the National Guard.
- Get my maps out and I start looking and I'm like National Guard base on the road they're on.
- Soon, Walls was recruited to join the National Guard, where he admitted to swindling our brave troops.
- Do you actually think Americans would let that go far with not only our National Guard, but also just Americans themselves?
- I've got pictures from the bottom of our street where they had the National Guard out because it was a danger they had kill white, kill, sorry, kill rich people.
Examples
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They've called out the National Guard, and riot police are on alert.
Fiction book (1998) -
All across Boston, National Guard units have been mobilized to try and to contain the situation.
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But there are orders and the National Guard is to follow them.
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I would then go to the National Guard unit, check in.
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Call out the National Guard!
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The National Guard might be called out... ...to clear roads.
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We were attached to a National Guard unit.
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We will deploy the National Guard on our streets and our streets will once again be safe.
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I'm calling in the National Guard.
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Communications have broken down between the National Guard and the police, and they're having problems communicating with each other.
Synonyms
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5.8
An organized group of ordinary people who act as soldiers in emergencies
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5.9
A volunteer group of local people who protect their area when the army is away
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4.0
A group of trained soldiers not on active duty who can be called in emergencies
People who train as soldiers and can be called to serve in emergencies
How Professional
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3.0
- Formal
152
3.7
- Specialized
- UK
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5.9
553
5.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The basic meaning — a protective or military force associated with the nation — is directly and predictably derived from combining 'national' (country-level) with 'guard' (a force that protects). Specific institutional details about state vs. federal organization are specialized knowledge, but an average B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it denotes a country-level guarding/military body.
Etymology
National Guard comes from the idea of ordinary people forming a guard for their nation, a local group ready to protect their home. Because these citizen groups could be called out when needed, the name now means a force kept by each state as a 'reserve force' to help in war or emergencies.