home guard
a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
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How to use home guard in a sentence
Russian TV usually present him as a member of the local Slovyansk home guard.
This "officer" turned out to be "Captain" James Burbick, of the home guard.
I answered, "I belong to the home-guard company in the bend: hurry, or they are gone."
A Confederate “home guard,” hearing something going on upon the island, rode across, concealed his horse and still-hunted me.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceGo thou and Hake back to the huts as fast as may be, and order the home-guard to make all needful preparation.
The Norsemen in the West | R.M. Ballantyne
The rle of home guard did not appeal to him much, but when a fellow says “he bids to,” that settles it.
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp | Nell Speed
British Dictionary definitions for Home Guard
a volunteer part-time military force recruited for the defence of the United Kingdom in World War II
(in various countries) a civil defence and reserve militia organization
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