security guard

Questions about security guard

What does security guard mean?

security guard means "a guard who keeps watch".

What is another word for security guard?

Close synonyms include watchman, watcher. 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 security guard a common word?

security 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.