advance guard

collocation in English

meaningsofadvanceandguard

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advance
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ədˈvɑːns/us
/ədˈvæns/
happening, done, or ready before ...
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guard
noun[C]
uk
/ɡɑːd/us
/ɡɑːrd/
a person or group of people whose job is to protect a person, place, or thing from danger or attack, or to prevent a person such as a criminal ...
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(Definition ofadvanceandguardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With the infantry, the "advanceguard" would be called the "point man".
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The main army would join theadvanceguardshortly afterwards.
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The citation read; while commanding theadvanceguardof a regular force column on the frontier.
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Organization was structured around anadvanceguard, main body, rear guard and two right and left wing flanking elements.
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This strong mobile striking force was often used in later years as anadvanceguard.
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What is thatadvanceguardgoing to do?
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We were theadvanceguard, as it were.
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So our position as the forerunner andadvanceguardin preserving the dignity of animals, while understanding the limitations, has changed.
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While women in the public services were fighting theadvanceguardactions, working-class men and women were the most conservative elements in the struggle.
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I said that missionaries have generally been used as theadvanceguardof capitalism.
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That is theadvanceguardof the brigade.
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They are theadvanceguardof mighty and increasing forces.
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I suspect that they are only theadvanceguardof our new formidable competitors.
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Theadvanceguardare here and the main body cannot be far behind.
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After all, the best of them are anadvanceguardof what we want the ordinary grammar school and the modern secondary school to be.
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This was an occasion on which we were probably theadvanceguardof an essential element in the custodianship of virtue or, at any rate, the prevention of crime.
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The panel operates as anadvanceguardfor the resettlement committees and so provides information at the earliest possible moment after redundancy notice has been given.
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We also recognise that what is currently being discussed is only anadvanceguardof what has been referred to as an enlarged brigade of as many as 8,000 troops.
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At the same time, theadvanceguardwere ordered to man a higher position to the right front and south-west of the square.
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Around 7 p.m. theadvanceguardapproached the citadel.
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