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home guard

DEFINITIONS OF: home guard

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n a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere

Types:
yeomanry
a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army
Type of:
guard
a military unit serving to protect some place or person
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