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prisonguard

prisonguard is the alternative form of prison guard.

Meaning of prison guard

Noun

prison guard (plural prison guards)

  1. An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
    • And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco.1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: A comedy, New York: Anchor Books, published 1998, →ISBN, →OL, page 170

Forms of prisonguard

pluralprisonguards

Origin of prisonguard

From prison + guard.

Questions about prisonguard

What is prisonguard the alternative form of?
Prisonguard is the alternative form of prison guard.

Words near prisonguard in the dictionary

  1. prisoners of conscience
  2. prisoners of war
  3. prisoners' bars
  4. prisonful
  5. prisonfuls
  6. prisonguard
  7. prisonguards
  8. prisonhouse
  9. prisonhouses
  10. prisoning
  11. prisonization

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