republican guard

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   formerly Iraq's elite military unit whose primary role was to protect the government in Baghdad

   Broadermilitary unit

   Iraq

Questions about republican guard

What does republican guard mean?

republican guard means "formerly Iraq's elite military unit whose primary role was to protect the government in Baghdad".

Is republican guard a common word?

republican 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.