national guard

Questions about national guard

What does national guard mean?

national guard means "United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either".

What is another word for national guard?

Close synonyms include home reserve. 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 national guard a common word?

national guard 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.