Guard and Police

Guard

Guard verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

Police is a synonym for guard in protect topic. In some cases you can use "Police" instead the word "Guard" as a verb or a noun.

Police

Police verb - Maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol.

Guard is a synonym for police in activity topic. You can use "Guard" instead the word "Police" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as protection, control, maintain law and order in.

Nearby Words: policing, policed

How words are described

fellow fellow guard fellow police
human human guard human police
good good guard good police
female female guard female police
Other adjectives: special, normal, regular, original, dead, corrupt, simple, actual, entire, real, blue, innocent, private, military, local, nearby, armored, armed.

Common collocations

border guard border police border
world guard world police world
underworld guard underworld police underworld
town guard town police town
Other words: city.

Both words in one sentence

  • Dirty Cop In the Provost's Dog trilogy of the Tortall Universe, the city guard/police force has a much looser definition of "dirty" than the modern one.
    Source: Dirty Cop
  • Literature / The Turner Diaries All of these numbers are directly stated in the books and despite the sheer advantage in numbers and equipment the police and guard have the Organization inconceivably rolls right over them.
  • Booker from Animal Crossing is an English Bulldog that work as in the police force (as a town guard in Wild World).
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