old guard

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   a faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas

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Questions about old guard

What does old guard mean?

old guard means "a faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas".

Is old guard a common word?

old guard is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.