bodyguard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or group responsible for protecting someone, especially an important public figure

   A bodyguard walked beside the minister through the crowded station.

A compound of body + guard. It first referred to a group assigned to guard the person of a ruler or commander; it later came to denote either the whole protective unit or an individual member of it.

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