bodyguard
noun
body·guard
ˈbä-dē-ˌgärd 
: a usually armed attendant or group of attendants whose duty is to protect a person
Examples of bodyguard in a Sentence
They entered the building surrounded by bodyguards.
a member of the royal bodyguard
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In 2017, Politico reported that during Trump’s 2016 campaign, his former bodyguard and confidante Keith Schiller would routinely go to the McDonald’s near the Marine Air Terminal in Queens while Trump waited in the limousine.
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Chad De Guzman, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
The actor has worked on Ray Donovan (2019), Peacock’s Twisted Metal (2023), and in 25 episodes of The Blacklist as Red’s bodyguard, Weecha Xiu (2021–2023).
—EW.com, 12 Oct. 2024
Yet, by Sunday night, most of his campaign staff had quit, leaving him, according to one account, with just two communications aides and a bodyguard.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
But his early appointments to the Politburo, including Luong Tam Quang, whose father was a bodyguard for Lam’s father, and deputy prime minister positions betray a preference for anointing allies loyal to him personally rather than to any of the party’s factions.
—Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2024
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Chad De Guzman, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
The actor has worked on Ray Donovan (2019), Peacock’s Twisted Metal (2023), and in 25 episodes of The Blacklist as Red’s bodyguard, Weecha Xiu (2021–2023).
—EW.com, 12 Oct. 2024
Yet, by Sunday night, most of his campaign staff had quit, leaving him, according to one account, with just two communications aides and a bodyguard.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
But his early appointments to the Politburo, including Luong Tam Quang, whose father was a bodyguard for Lam’s father, and deputy prime minister positions betray a preference for anointing allies loyal to him personally rather than to any of the party’s factions.
—Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2024
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bodyguard
noun
body·guard
ˈbäd-ē-ˌgärd
: a person or group of persons whose job is to protect someone
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