provost guard

1. 1.

   a detachment under the command of a provost marshall

   Broaderdetachment

Questions about provost guard

What does provost guard mean?

provost guard means "a detachment under the command of a provost marshall".

Is provost guard a common word?

provost 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.