prison guard
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈprɪzən ɡɑrd/
:
carcelero
- The prison guard kept a close watch on the inmates to ensure their safety.
- private prison guard
- prison guards transporting inmates
- prison guard immunity
One of them was a police detective, one was a prison guard.
- One of them was a police detective, one was a prison guard.
- She had to dance for some of the prison guards there.
- So throughout the day, the production team are dressed as prison guards, guards.
- But listen, clearly people know you as ex prison guard.
- And then later that day, she was asked to dance for some of the senior prison guards.
- I would run to work each Monday to hear the stories from those two guys about being the prison guards for Hannibal Lecter.
- Then she tells me while she's in Auschwitz, she started to see the prison guards as prisoners.
- But you ended up becoming a prison guard, but not just at any part of any prison.
- It's like if his prison guards literally came out and said we killed Epstein.
- It wasn't being Mund, you know, because all the prison guards had locked themselves in behind, you know, closed doors.
Examples
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I ever tell you that I was a prison guard during the Depression?
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All the while, the prison guards kept opening and shutting the gate.
Fiction book (1994) -
But you ended up becoming a prison guard, but not just at any part of any prison.
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The author is accused of killing a prison guard.
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He used to work here as a prison guard.
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As Vitti approaches his cell, he sees a prison guard standing by.
Fiction book (2002) -
We put people into solitary confinement with no human contact other than the prison guards for decades.
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I would run to work each Monday to hear the stories from those two guys about being the prison guards for Hannibal Lecter.
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In my series, I have housewives, clerks, a prison guard, and a chef in a Boston restaurant.
Academic text (1993) -
The two paintings were commissioned to commemorate the generosity of a prison guard named Joseph Cange.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.2
A person whose job is to protect people or property
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1.3
A person who watches and protects a building or people to stop stealing and trouble
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7.4
A person who watches a place to warn others of danger
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4.1
A person who guards a building or land, usually at night
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3.0
A person who guards prisoners in a jail or prison
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7.4
A person who guards prisoners in a prison
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9.9
A person who locks and guards prisoners in a jail
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9.9
A person who watches prisoners in a jail
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4.2
A person who guards prisoners in a jail
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4.4
A person who guards and manages people in a jail or prison
A woman who guards and looks after women in a prison
An old word for a person who guards prisoners in a jail or prison
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who supervises prisoners' is directly and predictably derived from the constituents 'prison' (institution housing prisoners) + 'guard' (a person employed to protect/monitor). This simple noun-noun compounding/compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be obvious to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Prison guard comes from a simple picture: someone standing by a prison or at a cell to guard it and stop prisoners from leaving. That's why the phrase now means 'a person who watches and looks after people in a jail'.