under guard
idiom
: in the position of someone (such as a prisoner) who is being watched by a guard
He was arrested and placed under guard.
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Aita suffered stab wounds to the abdomen, back, face and neck and collapsed in a stairwell; his girlfriend underwent surgery and is being held under guard at the hospital.
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Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Today’s Cuban migrants like Pedro Lorenzo Concepción are being sent under guard to another tent city — Alligator Alcatraz.
—Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
The new mechanism limits food distribution to a small number of hubs under guard of armed contractors, where people must go to pick it up.
—Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025
Weinstein, whose health has deteriorated since his legal troubles began, is spending his time outside the courthouse under guard at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital — a reprieve from the city’s notoriously harsh and dysfunctional Rikers Island jail granted by Judge Farber during jury selection.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
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Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Today’s Cuban migrants like Pedro Lorenzo Concepción are being sent under guard to another tent city — Alligator Alcatraz.
—Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
The new mechanism limits food distribution to a small number of hubs under guard of armed contractors, where people must go to pick it up.
—Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025
Weinstein, whose health has deteriorated since his legal troubles began, is spending his time outside the courthouse under guard at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital — a reprieve from the city’s notoriously harsh and dysfunctional Rikers Island jail granted by Judge Farber during jury selection.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
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“Under guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/under%20guard. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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