bodyguard
bodyguard
Definition
body·guard (-gärd′)
noun
a person or group of persons assigned to protect someone from harm
bodyguard
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- hire: Fiver to you DVDs Synopsis A wealthy businessman hires a bodyguard to protect his girlfriend who has become witness to a murder.
- kill: Gaza 1 6 Hamas suspected in elevator blast that kills a bodyguard.
- employ: When someone employs a bodyguard they simply pay them to do the job.
- need: Because the truth needs no such bodyguard of lies.
- have: I don't carry a gun, I don't have bodyguards around me.
- become: Natalie is immensely grateful to Frances for sticking up for her and offers her money to become a regular bodyguard.
Converse of subject
- accompany: The Le Pen's and some of the Basque MEPs are conspicuous because they are always accompanied by burly bodyguards.
- surround: Each celebrity is surrounded by a marshmallow bodyguard wearing a T-shirt saying " nobody here gets hurt " .
- protect: The environment will continue to be destroyed while the wealthy travel in private jets, protected by bodyguards.
- attend: He said, " In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Adjective modifier
- armed: In the last few weeks alone, the price of an armed bodyguard has fallen by over 60 per cent!
- royal: A young country boy slave dazzled by the splendor of the royal bodyguard 's mansion.
- former: Recordings released by a former presidential bodyguard implicate Kuchma in the case.
- personal: From the reign of Charles VII onwards Scots archers formed the French king's personal bodyguard.
- own: When she found out her manager was having an affair with her own bodyguard she was devastated.
- female: She employs as her sidekick " the world's top female bodyguard and covert operator " .
Modifies a noun
- training: No other training course can provide this type of bodyguard training with the added career development system we have to all bodyguard training students.
Noun used with modifier
- robot: However, it's poor old Randy Quaid ( as the robot bodyguard Bruno ) that I feel sorry for.
Possessives
- king: From the reign of Charles VII onwards Scots archers formed the French king's personal bodyguard.
Preposition: of
- lie: Because the truth needs no such bodyguard of lies.
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