guard duty

1. 1.

   the duty of serving as a sentry

   “he was on guard that night”

   Synonymsguardsentry dutysentry go

   Broaderassignment

Questions about guard duty

What does guard duty mean?

guard duty means "the duty of serving as a sentry".

What is another word for guard duty?

Close synonyms include guard, sentry duty, sentry go. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guard duty a common word?

guard duty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.