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new guards

new guards is the plural of new guard.

Meaning of new guard

Noun

new guard (plural new guards)

  1. A group of people who are more willing to accept new ideas than their peers are.
  2. Collectively, people who have recently gained prominence or influence within a specific field.
    • The fits and starts of recent East European political history have many of their deepest roots in this inherently ambiguous predicament of the new guard of middle- and upper-level leaders.1971 December, Zygmunt Bauman, “Twenty Years After: The Crisis of Soviet-Type Systems”, in Theodore Frankel, editor, Problems of Communism, volume 20, number 6, page 49

Questions about new guards

What is new guards the plural of?
New guards is the plural of new guard.

Words near new guards in the dictionary

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  2. New Granada
  3. New Greek
  4. New Gretna
  5. new guard
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  7. New Guinea
  8. New Guinea flightless rail
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  10. New Guinea Highlands
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